How can I create a pop up window for a Windows Media video file in Dreamweaver CS6?

Question

I have a Windows Media video file on my homepage that plays automatically when you go to the website. I'd like to change my homepage. I now would like to place text that says "click here to play the video" and I'd like a pop up window to open and play the video. I'm using Dreamweaver CS6. Your help will be appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

BlueSapphire777 wrote:
<!--[if lt IE 9]>
<script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
Is the code you told me about (above), is it necessary for older browsers such as ie8? I thought you were saying it was for the HTML5 tags and I wasn't sure I'd bother with it. If it helps people with ie8, I probably should add it.
I include it (or a link to a localized copy of the file) by default now.
To truly support the ancient browsers out there, you'd likely need something like...
<video width="500" height="500">
    <source src="video.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
    <source src="video.ogv" type="video/ogg" />
    <source src="video.webm" type="video/webm" />
    <object width="500" height="500">
    <param name="movie" value="video.swf" />
    <embed src="video.swf" width="500" height="500"></embed>
    </object>
</video>
I don't bother with a Flash fall back for old browsers though. I just put in text letting the viewer know they're behind the times pretty severely, like...
<video width="500" height="500">
    <source src="video.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
    <source src="video.ogv" type="video/ogg" />
    <source src="video.webm" type="video/webm" />
    <p>Your browser is horribly, helplessly and hilariously outdated. Visit <a href="firefox.com" target="_blank">www.firefox.com</a> to download something better, more secure, modern, worthwhile, etc, etc...</p>
</video>
For junky old browsers that can't see any HTML5 (which the <video> and <audio> tags are), they get a text message to get something better and a link to go there.