Embed applet for all 'big' browsers IE, NS & Mozilla ?

Question

Hi.
I've got the problem with embedding an Applet. I've been looking around for sime time now and finally found a workaround to embed my Applet in both IE and Mozilla in the form of:<OBJECT classid="clsid:<somedata>" [..]>
    <PARAM NAME="codebase" VALUE=".">
    // some other params
    <COMMENT>
        <APPLET type="application/x-java-applet;version=1.3" width="100%" height="400" [..]>
              <PARAM NAME="scriptable" VALUE="true" />
              // again the other params
              No Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition v 1.3 support for Applet!
        </applet>
    </COMMENT>
</object>This should work since NS/Mozilla both ignore the <object>-tag and IE ignores all code between the <comment>-tags. This works fine when I test my Applet locally (from the filesystem) with IE & Mozilla.
Nevertheless, when I try running my Applet via HTTP (Apache web-server) Mozilla works fine but IE says 'loading Applet ..' but never gets finished loading it. No error message, no complaints - but no Applet either.
Any ideas? I'd really appreciate if someone could shed some light on this issue for me.
cheers,
kelysar

Answer 1

Yes, I know what you're talking about. This would look like:<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
    var _info = navigator.userAgent;
    var _ns = false;
    var _ie = (_info.indexOf("MSIE") > 0 && _info.indexOf("Win") > 0 &&
              _info.indexOf("Windows 3.1") < 0);
</script>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.1">
    var _ns = (navigator.appName.indexOf("Netscape") >= 0 &&
              ((_info.indexOf("Win") > 0 && _info.indexOf("Win16") < 0 &&
              java.lang.System.getProperty("os.version").indexOf("3.5") < 0) ||
              (_info.indexOf("Sun") > 0) || (_info.indexOf("Linux") > 0)));
</script>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
    if      (_ie == true) document.writeln('<OBJECT [..]><NOEMBED><XMP>');
    else if (_ns == true) document.writeln('<EMBED [..]><NOEMBED><XMP>');
</script>
<APPLET [..]></xmp>
     <param>
        // other parameters
</applet>
</noembed></embed></object>The only problem with that is, that the HTML-code is not well-formed anymore. I'm using a proprietary content management system which transforms XML-content with XSL-stylesheets with a php-module. In order for the transformation to work the XML-data has to be alright - which it isn't when using the above way.
BTW: I've found this JavaScript-code somewhere on Sun's website - so it's their official way.
cheers,
kelysar