when validating a site using w3c validator it tells me the embed tag is not valid markup. So i take it out and it works on safari/chrome but not firefox(3.5.x) but validates fine. Is there something in the object tag i must add in order for firefox to display flash.
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embed has never been part of the HTML spec and object should be used. It's been so long since I've touched flash, I hesitate to say more than that which I know.
Rob
2010-05-18 19:04:24
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You should use swfobject. It's valid, although I think I've had the validator trip up on it before (the w3 validator has been known to trip up on stuff like this on occasion).
quoo
2010-05-18 19:25:42
um, did someone just go through and downvote every answer this page? lame.
quoo
2010-05-19 14:15:07
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A List Apart has a great article on that topic: Flash Satay: Embedding Flash While Supporting Standards.
Read that to understand the general difficulties with embedding flash and to read about different approaches to embed it in valid HTML. And then go and use SWFobject to embed Flash as that is the best way to do it while having both standards support and browser compiliance.
In addition to that you may use the normal Flash Satay method to embed it for people without JavaScript.
poke
2010-05-18 19:31:52
The actual reasearch behind Flash Satay still applies in the same way, so no, it's not out of date. The only new thing is the caged method, which I would not really call a clean way either. And the static method of SWFobject still uses JavaScript to fix the last problems.
poke
2010-05-18 20:03:33
quoo
2010-05-18 22:25:44