Okay, I've got an HTML coding problem that is fallout from this thread but is unrelated to that discussion. Uncle google, combined with tons of trial and error, are not helping me.

The expectation: Anything that's plaintext located between <object></object> tags is only supposed to get rendered on old browsers that ignore the object tag. Ideally, this is how you provide an alternative to the object itself.

For example, my music page has little button objects that are made from the XPSF Button Player. If you have Flash installed, you get the Flash button and it streams the MP3 file when you press it. If you don't have flash installed (or you're on an iPhone/iTouch which can't run Flash objects), you get a hyperlink directly to the MP3 file. This seemed to work in all cases when I tried it.

But just now, I've coded up something new that *seems* to break that desired behavior, only on Firefox, and I want to know what I've done wrong.

Here's what I did. I'm considering replacing the XPSF Button Player with the Wimpy Player. It costs 20 bucks, but it solves my Flash-version-bugs nicely. Right now I'm just trying out its limited-to-playing-10-seconds demo, but if I can get it to work I'll pull the trigger on the full version.

Anyway, when you use the Wimpy player, its example HTML code is very similar to what the XPSF player uses. You stick <object> and <param> tags in there that point to the wimpy player SWF file and your MP3, and if the browser supports it, you get the button.

The HTML code between XPSF and Wimpy is different in a few significant ways, though, and I think that's the cause of my problem. When I do everything I think I'm supposed to do, I get this result, which is just fine on IE, but which renders BOTH the object and the alternative link on Firefox. I don't want it rendering both, I want it rendering one or the other.

Can someone please look at the source code (right click, view page source) on each of these two pages linked below, in IE and Firefox on Windows, and let me know if you can see where I've gone wrong?

Good behavior with XPSF Player code
Bad behavior with Wimpy Player code

Thanks in advance.

PS: Things I have already tried:
- Commenting out the <embed> object, even though Wimpy tells me it is needed.
- Moving the position of my alternative text to various places within the object tags, for example, putting it right after <object> right before <embed> right before </object>, etc.
- Removing many of the <param> statements.