flash & Strict Compliancy

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by safe_reader, Aug 4, 2006.

  1. #1
    After many hours, I have stripped out ALL of my tables, and all my flash buttons (which I had slaved over), and rebuilt everything piece by piece (not that it looks much better).

    This was mostly done because all the complaints I got about flash buttons, and non-compliancy.

    Ok, now there is ONE flash image which I would LIKE to keep on my page. Is it possible to have just one small flash-imagne on my page, and still have it validate? I embeded the flash with Dreamweaver and this gives me about 7 errors from the validator. Seems it wants me to strip out almost everything, but certainly the movie wouldn't have anything to even support itself.

    The flash code looks as follows:



    Is that ugly? Hopefuly I can still keep it and keep things compliant?
     
    safe_reader, Aug 4, 2006 IP
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    Gordaen Peon

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    The embed tag was made by Netscape, and it is not compliant. I think the smiley face earns some bonus points though ;)

    A list Apart has a good article on it.
     
    Gordaen, Aug 4, 2006 IP
  3. safe_reader

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    Well that was an interesting article. I tried to use and, and the good news is I got my html to valid, the bad news is that the flash just refused to run (or be found) using the code. The structure listed was this:

    <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
    data="c.swf?path=movie.swf"
    width="400" height="300">
    <param name="movie"
    value="c.swf?path=movie.swf" />
    </object>



    I tried to follow that, but like I said, it just refuses to find my irtc.swf file::

    <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
    data="c.swf?path=/irtc.swf"
    width="468" height="60">
    <param name="movie"
    value="c.swf?path=/irtc.swf" />
    </object>


    Maybe browsers changed, or I am missing the obvious again.
     
    safe_reader, Aug 5, 2006 IP
  4. safe_reader

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    Ok, I went re-read through the site, tinkered around some more... and got it to work. Thanks for the link.
     
    safe_reader, Aug 5, 2006 IP