Embedding flash problem

[Paul F. Johnson]

Hi,

I'm redesigning a website at the moment and have hit upon a problem. I
have the following piece of code (which is lifted from the original HTML
file)

<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/cabs/swflash.cab#version=2,0,0,0"
width="343" height="232" align="middle">
<param name="SRC" value="flash/movie.swf">
<embed src="movie.swf"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/" width="343"
height="232" align="middle">
</embed>
</object>

(sorry about the word wrapping)

On the original website it works fine (you can see it at
http://www.smmp.salford.ac.uk/dixonpeters). If I move the files where they
are stored to anywhere other than where they currently are, the embedded
bits don't work.

Is this more likely an Apache problem or something else and is this the
correct way to embed a flash movie (or any other media such as a real file
etc?)

TTFN

Paul

 

[Steve Pugh]

I'm redesigning a website at the moment and have hit upon a problem. I
have the following piece of code (which is lifted from the original HTML
file)

<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/cabs/swflash.cab#version=2,0,0,0"
width="343" height="232" align="middle">

Look at these two lines.

<param name="SRC" value="flash/movie.swf">
<embed src="movie.swf"

Browsers that use the MS-mangled-<object> will look for the movie.swf
file in the flash directory whilst browsers that use the
never-standard-<embed> will look for the movie.swf in the same
directory as the html page. Is the movie.swf file in both locations on
the orginal?

pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/" width="343"
height="232" align="middle">
</embed>
</object>


On the original website it works fine (you can see it at
http://www.smmp.salford.ac.uk/dixonpeters). If I move the files where they
are stored to anywhere other than where they currently are, the embedded
bits don't work.

Can you post a URI to the new site where they don't work?

Iis this the correct way to embed a flash movie (or any other media such as
a real file etc?)

Have a read of http://www.alistapart.com/stories/flashsatay/

Steve

 

[Nicolai P. Zwar]

Have a read of http://www.alistapart.com/stories/flashsatay/

I can second that recommendation. Very valuable information on that page
that has saved me a lot of time, effort, and frustration.