Obsolete. The Media Bar provides a basic user interface (UI) for locating and playing media within the browser window, including simple controls that enable the user to play music, video, or mixed-media files, and to search for additional media content, without opening a separate window. The Media Bar default behavior exposes much of the Media Bar functionality to scripting, giving you control over playback, navigation, and the player UI. It also enables you to load HTML in the Media Bar content area.
Note As of Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) or Windows Internet Explorer 7, the
mediaBar feature is obsolete and no longer available.
Because the mediaBar is an implementation of the Microsoft Windows Media Player, some Media Bar members are essentially the same as those in the Windows Media Player 10 SDK, notably the onopenstatechange and onplaystatechange events and the openState, playState, and enabled properties. For more information about the Windows Media Player object model, see the Player reference.
The following links provide information about the object model exposed by the mediaBar behavior.
Overviews/Tutorials
Using the Media Bar in Internet Explorer
Obsolete. New in Internet Explorer 6, the Media Bar provides a straightforward UI for locating and playing media within the browser window. The Media Bar includes an HTML content area and a player control
Behaviors
mediaBar
Obsolete. Provides a basic UI for locating and playing media within the browser window.
The Media Bar
Objects
MediaItem
Obsolete. Represents a single item in a media player playlist.
PlaylistInfo
Obsolete. Contains information about a media player playlist.
Properties
attributeCount
Obsolete. Retrieves the count of the attributes associated with the media object.
currentItem
Obsolete. Retrieves the current media item.
disabledUI
Obsolete. Sets or retrieves a Boolean value that specifies whether an instance of the Media BarUI is disabled.
duration
Obsolete. Retrieves the duration of the current media item.
enabled
Obsolete. Sets or retrieves a Boolean value that specifies whether the Media Bar player control is enabled.
hasNextItem
Obsolete. Retrieves a value that indicates whether any successive items follow the current item in the playlist.
name
Obsolete. Retrieves the name of the media.
nextItem
Obsolete. Retrieves the next media item in a playlist, if there is one.
openState
Obsolete. Retrieves an integer that indicates the open state of the Media Bar player.
playlistInfo
Obsolete. Retrieves playlist information, if a playlist exists.
playState
Obsolete. Retrieves an integer that indicates the play state of the Media Bar player.
sourceURL
Obsolete. Retrieves the URL of the media.
Methods
getAttributeName
Obsolete. Returns the name of the attribute whose index has been specified.
getItemInfo
Obsolete. Returns the value of the specified attribute for the current media.
playNext
Obsolete. Starts playback of the next media item in the playlist, if a playlist is present.
playURL
Obsolete. Loads media from a URL into the Media Bar and starts playback.
stop
Obsolete. Stops playback of the media that is currently playing.
Events
onhide
Obsolete. Fires when the Media Bar player is hidden.
onopenstatechange
Obsolete. Fires when the Media Bar player changes its open state.
onplaystatechange
Obsolete. Fires when the Media Bar player changes its play state.
onshow
Obsolete. Fires when the Media Bar player becomes visible.