Firefox/Opera and Object/Embed tag

[Andy Tang]

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

 

[oeb]

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/

 

[Andy Tang]

<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/

Thank you. This is what I was looking for.

 

[Toby Inkster]

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.

Flash outputs weird-IE specific OBJECT elements. If you use OBJECT the
proper way it works in all modern browsers.