Posted by oeb on 05/10/06 13:18

Andy Tang wrote:
>
> I've decided to changed all my embed tags for shockwave files to object
> tags. This works fine in IE but it looks like Firefox/Opera are still
> using the old style embed tag. I work around this by putting the embed
> tag inside the object tag as an alternative option.
>
> However, since the object tag is in the HTML 4 specs, I fail to see why
> this doesn't work without using embed. Is it something I'm doing wrong,
> or do these browsers don't support it in the first place?
>
> Andrew


<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="path/to.swf"
width="190" height="70">
<param name="movie" value="path/to.swf" />
</object>

This works fine in firefox 1.5 I have been getting minor issues with it
in 1.0.* (When handling layout with CSS)

For more info

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

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