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Flash and Validation
Matt Bailey Wicked Member Since: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 195	Posted 31 Mar 2005 18:48:53 I tried validating one of my pages today and it had a problem with a Flash movie on the page. Will putting Flash on a page cause it not to validate, or can something be done? ___________________________________ * Sorry... how do you do that again?... * I tried validating one of my pages today and it had a problem with a Flash movie on the page. Will putting Flash on a page cause it not to validate, or can something be done? ___________________________________ * Sorry... how do you do that again?... *

Flash and Validation

Matt Bailey
Wicked Member

Since: 26 Mar 2003
Posts: 195

Posted 31 Mar 2005 18:48:53

I tried validating one of my pages today and it had a problem with a Flash movie on the page. Will putting Flash on a page cause it not to validate, or can something be done?

___________________________________
* Sorry... how do you do that again?... *

I tried validating one of my pages today and it had a problem with a Flash movie on the page. Will putting Flash on a page cause it not to validate, or can something be done?

___________________________________
* Sorry... how do you do that again?... *

Dave Thomas Zone Administrator Since: 02 Jul 2002 Posts: 1,216	Replied 01 Apr 2005 08:39:47 quote from a macromedia guy: Depends on what you're validating against. The HTML 4.0+ spec doesn't like the "EMBED" tag, while the various realworld browsers do. If you're validating against the browsers then a nested OBJECT/EMBED structure is the way to go. If you're validating against the spec then that will introduce conflicts with the various realworld browsers. regards Dave Thomas <b>DMX Zone Manager</b>

Dave Thomas Zone Administrator Since: 02 Jul 2002 Posts: 1,216	Replied 01 Apr 2005 08:46:11 apparantley this is the way to go > <b>use one object element for IE and then a nested embed element for everything else</b> <pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code><font color=blue> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN"> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>Flash with OBJECT elements</title> </head> <body> <p> <object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" width="300" height="120"> <param name="movie" value="www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/triggerpages_mmcom/flash.swf"> <param name="quality" value="high"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"> <!--[if !IE]> <--> <object data="www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/triggerpages_mmcom/flash.swf" width="300" height="120" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"> <param name="quality" value="high"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"> <param name="pluginurl" value="www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"> FAIL (the browser should render some flash content, not this). </object> <!--> <![endif]--> </object> </p> </body> </html> </font id=blue></font id=code></pre id=code> hope that helps m8. regards Dave Thomas <b>DMX Zone Manager</b>

Matt Bailey Wicked Member Since: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 195	Replied 01 Apr 2005 10:59:34 That's brilliant. The page now validates! ___________________________________ * Sorry... how do you do that again?... *

Dave Thomas Zone Administrator Since: 02 Jul 2002 Posts: 1,216	Replied 01 Apr 2005 11:00:42 nice one <img src=../images/dmxzone/forum/icon_smile.gif border=0 align=middle> regards Dave Thomas <b>DMX Zone Manager</b>

satheesh Dominic Member Since: 24 Apr 2007 Posts: 44	Replied 03 Oct 2009 21:56:59 You may also try fixing this problem using a JavaScript function to embed the swf files in XHTML. I have already written an article on this. You may check it at www.tutorials2learn.com/?p=391. This method will allow your pages to be validated as per w3c standards