No events are firing

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Neil Makar

I have the simplest of all possible web pages short of "Hellow world," and
it doesn't friggin'work. I need someone to show me the secret handshake to
get this working.

I have an embedded object and I want to track the ready state. (Actually,
I want to track the URL to see if the bloody thing connected to anything.)
Here is my entire piece of code.

<head>
<title>Lynx Sample Window</title>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 7.1">
<meta name="vs_targetSchema"
content="http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5">
<script id=clientEventHandlersJS language=javascript>
<!--

function myembed_onreadystatechange() {
alert("readystatechanged");
}

function myembed_onload() {
alert("onload");
}

//-->
</script>
</head>

<body>

<p><embed id="myembed"
src="http://easylink.playstream.com/winlive/woodlandparkzoo.asx"
language=javascript
onreadystatechange="myembed_onreadystatechange()"
onload="myembed_onload()"></p>

</body>

Neither the onload nor the onreadystatechange events fire. I get no errors,
I get nothin'.

Can anyone explain the secret handshake it takes to get this junk to work?

Thanks,

signed
Pissed Off in Washington.
 
Neil,

Does the EMBED tag have those event handlers? I don't think it does, which
would explain why they're not firing, but I could be wrong.

Toby Mathews
 
I was thinking the same thing, but I can't find documentation that says one
way or the other, and I don't know how to test for them. Form level events
(onclick, onload, etc.) all fire, so I suspect you are right.

Which begs the question, how do I determine if the embedded link worked? If
it goes dead, I want to be able to tell. Right now, a dead link just blankly
stares at you.

Neil
 
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