There is a fairly standard list of free viewers which are available to anyone with a Mosaic or Netscape client. However, this is an area where you should know what kind of viewers your intended audience is likely to have.
Audio and video are available through anchors.
<a href="rugsales.au"> Here is a message from one of our friendly salespersons. </a>
Or simply put an audio icon to indicate an audio file.
<a href="rugsales.au"> <img src="iconaudio.gif"></a>
Since people have a wide variation in how fast their network is, it is a nice style to warn people if an image, audio, or video is likely to be large enough to cause some people to have too slow a download time. The download time is roughly equivalent to the size of the file, so these objects often have sizes posted.
<a href="video.mpeg"><img src="iconvideo.gif"> My video </a> 3 Mbytes - Very Slow!

See also color IMAGE Foil 20 External Viewers, continued

From Preparing Web Pages - HTML Presentation: Preparing Web Pages with HTML -- Fall Semester 96. by Nancy McCracken-Foils prepared December 5 1996


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