[brothercake]

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
		classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
		id="flash"
		width="750"
		height="245"
		>
	<![endif]-->

	<![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!