Posted by Andy Dingley on 01/29/07 11:53

On 27 Jan, 03:13, I V <wrong...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The "flash satay" article is deeply bizarre, an example of cargo cult
> coding.

I don't know enough about Flash, Flash embedding or even the detailed
use of <object> to comment further. I'm merely comparing "Flash
wrapped" vs. "bare" video. I don't do this particular stuff often, but
when I do I've found (as I suspect the OP has) that the "correct"
approaches to embedding bare video are so limited and broken in terms
of the results that they deliver to the user as to be unworkable. A
year ago (when I Iast did this) I ended up with <embed> as a widely
supported way of embedding video with a known container size. These
days I'd look at how YouTube et al. are doing it and probably go with
a Flash wrapper.

So what's wrong with Flash satay and how should it be done better?
Assuming a level of ignorance as I describe above, how should a "HTML
competent" developer best slap a video onto a page?

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