Hi Sajith,
You'll find that there isn't currently a method for insetting Flash or other media
that:
1. Validates to XHTML
2. Displays reliably cross browser, cross platform.
Currently the best advice is to validate media content pages as HTML v4 transitional.
The other option, which is
Currently the best advice is to validate media content pages as HTML
v4 transitional.
Personally, I think the best approach is still Flash Satay:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay/
Patrick Griffiths (PTG)
http://www.htmldog.com/ptg/
http://www.htmldog.com
If it is the only thing
causing a site not to validate, what harm is it really?
Won't it push IE into quirks mode because it's not validating?
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The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/
See
I still think the Satay method is more elegant (and has far less code
clutter)
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Mario,
Ian Hickson recently came up with a more elegant
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Yes but...
movie clips inside a loaded movie are less accessible, both in terms of
programming them and accessibility.
There are major issues with the satay method involving streaming.
It is a smart bit of coding, but I'll be sticking with the invalid
method (or possibly hixie's if I start
Thank you Simon, Gene and Iain for your help and direction! It's truly
appreciated, and I'll review both solutions.
Kind regards,
Mario
Mario,
Ian Hickson recently came up with a more elegant alternative to the
Satay and JavaScript solutions.
Read his post about it here:
Hi Mario,
I believe this article will be of help:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay/
Good luck, :)
Iain
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Hi Mario, take a look at:
http://alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay/
Regards,
Gean
Good afternoon all,
I'm trying to design and create all my sites in 2004 using the XHTML and
CSS compliant standards. Although, I have six-plus years of Web and
graphic design experience, the Web standards
There are several options.
You can use javascript to write the embed tag so that it passes the
validator. You can also use several techniques that will allow you to
exclude the embed tag altogether (Flash Satay and others).
I tend to just let the embed tag go as it is. I will validate my site
Mario,
Ian Hickson recently came up with a more elegant alternative to the Satay
and JavaScript solutions.
Read his post about it here: http://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1081798064count=1
And see his example here:
http://damowmow.com/playground/demos/flash/001.html
Simon Jessey
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