	The Information Overlaid Toolkit: ; Referance Manual Edition 2.4, for Information Overlaid Version 2.4; 27th April 2004
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Chapter 4. The Applet and HTML

Table of Contents
The Applet Tag
Applet Configuration Parameters
Parameters Controlling Applet Appearance
Parameters For User Interface Behaviour
Callbacks

The Applet Tag

the Easel applet is included in a page by using the HTML applet tag. The easiest way to get the parameters of this tag correct is to use the easel_applet_tag function to write it:

<script language='JavaScript'>
    easel_applet_tag("mymap", "/overlaid", 330, 330);
</script>
	    <param name='copyright' value='Copyright 1999-2002 Interactive Information Ltd'> 

	    <param ...>
	    ...
    </applet>

However, if you want to put the tag in by hand it should look something like the following:

<applet  MAYSCRIPT codebase='/overlaid' archive='easel.jar' code=Easel name='mymap' width=330 height=330>

The parameters of the applet tag are:

MAYSCRIPT:applet tag: This indicates that the applet will want to call JavaScript functions.
codebase:applet tag: This points to where the installation of Information Overlaid where the applet can be found.
archive:applet tag: The name of the file containing the applet.
code:applet tag: The name of the applet itself.
name:applet tag: The name of the applet within the HTML page. Used to reference it from JavaScript.
width:applet tag, height:applet tag: The size of the applet window.

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