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[saukwebsolutions]

Is this possible. I am still learning this stuff, but here is the code that is bringing up errors:

 <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0" width="300" height="500" hspace="2" vspace="2" align="right">
        <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
        <param name="movie" value="form.swf" />
        <param name="quality" value="high" />
        <param name="bgcolor" value="#CCCCCC" />
        <embed target="form.swf" width="300" height="500" hspace="2" vspace="2" align="right" quality="high" bgcolor="#CCCCCC" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /></embed>

How can I change the words aroud to make it compliant?

Here is a link to the test results:

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...doctype=Inline


Thanks again for any and all help

[dollar]

The short and simple answer is that you don't IIRC there is a way to do it with Java, but your already limited by how many users have flash, why limit even more to only those who have flash and java being able to view the flash?

[saukwebsolutions]

I would think that most if not all people are able to view flash or even java. I think there is a small % of people that are not able to view it or choose not to view it for security reasons.

Over 98% of the people who visit the site use IE, and really that means a good possibility that both are enabled on that machine.

Thanks for the help though, at least the front of the site is.

[Marble]

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

Imo, if you are taking care of the important things, like using alt tags on images that represent content, etc... having a few oddities that don't validate is not a big deal. If you really want to make a good xhtml site, don't use flash.

I still use target="blank" attributes on external links, well-knowing that it doesn't validate. But I'd rather not have my users use the back/history button when viewing external sites... This makes my sites not validate 100%, but I don't see it as a big deal.

[saukwebsolutions]

Well right now that is the only thing not validating so I am happy. This is some interesting stuff, and very hard to get every single thing coded correctly

[digiscape]

This is a neat javascript solution, it validates and will detect versions of flash installed
http://blog.deconcept.com/flashobject/

[the_pm]

Originally Posted by Marble

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

Imo, if you are taking care of the important things, like using alt tags on images that represent content, etc... having a few oddities that don't validate is not a big deal. If you really want to make a good xhtml site, don't use flash.

I still use target="blank" attributes on external links, well-knowing that it doesn't validate. But I'd rather not have my users use the back/history button when viewing external sites... This makes my sites not validate 100%, but I don't see it as a big deal.

Just be careful! They forgot a quotation mark in the final markup sample!

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash

should be

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash"

[Marble]

Good catch! Is alistapart aware of this?

Originally Posted by the_pm

Just be careful! They forgot a quotation mark in the final markup sample!

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash

should be

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash"

[the_pm]

I think people have pointed it out. I have no idea why it isn't fixed. It's a blaring mistake in a very popular article!

[saukwebsolutions]

interesting stuff! thanks

[WebDesignGold]

Hmm.. Someone else claims he got a better solution than that of ALA.
Is this true?

[seodevhead]

Here is your answer. It is called Flash Satay. It is modified source by a gentleman with the last name Satay. I have been using it for sometime now and it works great... 100% valid and no extraneous code. You can google 'flash satay' or visit here:

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

[WebDesignGold]

Originally Posted by seodevhead

Here is your answer. It is called Flash Satay. It is modified source by a gentleman with the last name Satay. I have been using it for sometime now and it works great... 100% valid and no extraneous code. You can google 'flash satay' or visit here:

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

That's what we are talking about, right above your post.

[seodevhead]

Ahhh....

thanks for the validation on that ;-)

[FleZ]

Originally Posted by WebDesignGold.com

Hmm.. Someone else claims he got a better solution than that of ALA.
Is this true?

No it isn't, and the Flash Satay article talks about a solution similar to this guy's and it tells why it isn't so good.