When a visitor clicks on a hypermedia link (i.e., a link leading to a multimedia file, such as a graphic, audio, or video file), the Web browser will load a helper application (e.g., QuickTime Player), if necessary, to play the file.
Thus, a hypermedia link is not much different from any other kind of hyperlinks. (See Hyperlinks and URLs and More on Hyperlinks and URLs.)
Click here to review the page that plays a MIDI sound file through a hypermedia link.
| <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Enter the Page Title Here</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <A href="download/music.mid">Click on this link to play the sound file</A> </BODY> </HTML> |
Note that both MIDI (i.e., .mid) or Wave (i.e., .wav) files can be played back in most browsers without using a helper application.
The following table summaries some of the most popular multimedia file formats:
| File
Type |
Extension |
Audio |
.wav, .mid, .mp3 |
Video |
.mpg, .mov, .avi, .ram |
Graphics |
.gif, .jpg, .bmp, .tif,
.pict |
The <EMBED> tag can also be used to embed other multimedia files, in addition to audio files, into a Web page. (See Embedding Background Sound into a Web Page.)
Besides, it can also use the height and width attributes to define the height (in pixels) and width (in pixels) of the display area.
