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SWFObject – embedding FLASH using valid HTML/XHTML or JavaScript

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

SWFObject is a small Javascript file used for embedding Adobe Flash content. The script can detect the Flash plugin in all major web browsers (on PC and Mac) and is designed to make embedding Flash movies as easy as possible. It is also very search engine friendly, degrades gracefully, can be used in valid HTML [...]

XHTML compatible markup for embeding FLASH and Video

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

It has always gotten my goat that Internet Explorer’s non-standard use of the object tag has forced standards-loving browsers to use the non-standard embed tag in order to embed movies on a web page. Even on Apple’s site, the embed tag - a Netscape extension, for Pete’s sake! - is so entrenched that it’s hard [...]