Is it possible for an HTML file embedded with <object> to access the values of its <param>s?
I'm in the process of bring a legacy webapp current for my company, that is, make it HTML5-capable among other things. Until I get a proper templating engine (as well as a proper working tree structure and architecture, holy crap) integrated into this thing, I'm using the <object> tag to embed HTML pages to provide things like audio/video players.
I decided to use <object> rather than <iframe> because <object>s can contain <param> elements. And, especially for the A/V players, I'd like to be able to have configurable properties such as the media file to be played, whether certain buttons appear/are hidden, etc. Nothing in the Web API sticks out obviously to me (I am still looking), and I can't seem to find anything on whether it's possible to grab <param> values from the parent page (searching has gotten me a million results about using <object> and <param> with Flash, which is useless to me).
If this isn't possible, I suppose I'm better off using <iframe> and setting the src to a URL with a query string...
According to this reference, no. The param tag is only used when the object represents a plugin, which is probably why your searches (and mine) kept turning up results for Flash.