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12-01-2005, 10:31 PM

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Faulty Code?

How do i embedd Flash in a HTML document, i did it the way W3 Schools said but it dosen't work... Here is my code:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>GethinOakes.com ~ Please Choose Your Destination</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /> 
</head>
<body bgcolor="#d2e8ff">
<p align="center">
<object width="550" height="400">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.gethinoakes.com/index.swf">
<embed src="http://www.gethinoakes.com/index.swf" width="550" height="400">
</embed>
</object>
</p>
</body>
</html>

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12-01-2005, 10:36 PM

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Yeh I'm not really a coder so I don't see the problem, and still don't with www.gethinoakes.com - loads perfect for me... but yeh if you can help Techno figure it out then I guess your helping me.

Thanks in advance

12-01-2005, 10:40 PM

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is something wrong with the .swf file itself? i opened up http://www.gethinoakes.com/index.swf and all i got was a blank blue page

12-01-2005, 10:42 PM

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When I open up the swf at
http://www.gethinoakes.com/index.swf

I get the text, and everything that should be there... the swf file is only 5kb, do you have flash player 8?

12-01-2005, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by How2Freelance

When I open up the swf at
http://www.gethinoakes.com/index.swf

I get the text, and everything that should be there... the swf file is only 5kb, do you have flash player 8?

nope, good call... and my work firewall prevents me downloading it so i'll wait till i get home to look at it on my mac

12-02-2005, 12:04 AM

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I think it needs to be soemthing like

<object classid="clsid

27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" data="http://www.gethinoakes.com/index.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="550" height="400">
<param name="src" value="http://www.gethinoakes.com/index.swf" valuetype="ref" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" />
<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.gethinoakes.com/index.swf" width="550" height="400"></embed>
</object>

I'm no flash man.,. I just pulled it from somewhere else. >.> hehe.

I just remember from somewhere that weird classid mumbo jumbo.

12-02-2005, 12:26 AM

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The flash loaded for me..

By the way <embed></embed> is not valid xhtml! (just thought I'd tell you)

12-02-2005, 01:36 AM

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Yeah, there is another way. Let me get it.....

HTML Code:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="SWF FILE" width="WIDTH" height="HEIGHT">
<param name="movie" value="SWF FILE" />
</object>

12-02-2005, 01:43 AM

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Hmm it seems to work for me, so I dont what the problem is.. I really like the simplicity btw

12-02-2005, 02:33 AM

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Here's a great List Apart article on embedding Flash while still abiding by XHTML standards. I'm pretty sure that's the method xZaft described