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Skyzyx

01-21-2003, 07:04 AM

This article goes over how to embed flash elements, while maintaining XHTML validation... I can't seem to get it to work for me under Moz... any suggestions?

http://www.alistapart.com/stories/flashsatay/

zoobie

01-22-2003, 12:45 PM

I just saw a converter to xhtml somewhere on the web. If you have php, you could try this (http://www.evilwalrus.com/viewcode/482.php) one. If not, try searching. :p

PS - 9cy.com is a free host with php :thumbsup:

jkd

01-22-2003, 12:53 PM

I don't remember having any problems with that example before.... which build of Mozilla do you have, and do you have the Flash plugin installed for it?

brothercake

01-22-2003, 03:37 PM

works for me too, in moz1.2a

Skyzyx

01-22-2003, 04:54 PM

I've got Moz 1.3b (nightly - Jan 20, 2003), and Flash plug-in 6.0.65 (the latest). Specifically, I've had problems with SWF images. Moz doesn't want to display them. Same problem in Opera 7.0b2 (with Flash 6.0.65).

ogden2k

06-15-2003, 12:24 AM

Here's what I have for flash, it validates, but the flash won't load:
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="c.swf?path=horses.swf"
width="600" height="470">
<param name="movie" value="c.swf?path=horses.swf" />
</object>

Why not?

ogden2k

07-01-2003, 12:28 AM

bump

brothercake

07-01-2003, 10:33 AM

It should work like that - does for me; are you sure there's not some other problem to do with using the Flash plugin in your mozilla - might be a problem there - does the demo in that article work okay in your same browser?

But NB - the technique described in that article doesn't work in Win IE5.0. To make it work, compliant, *and* get IE5.0 support, I eventually had to do this:



<![if ! IE 5]>
<object
type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
data="home.swf"
id="flash"
width="750"
height="245"
>
<![endif]>

<param name="movie" value="home.swf" />

Which is ridiculous I know, and it gets worse - inverse conditional comments (by which I mean, NOT conditions) don't work properly in IE5.0 either - they do actually work, but the closing <![endif]> shows up as literal text on the page, so you have to surround the object in a DIV or something and set its text colour the same as your background!