If users copy only the static embed code, and don't have a reference to 
swfobject.js, then they don't get any of the benefit of swfobject which is 
version detection and alt-content switching.  This seems a rather futile 
approach.

--Kyle





From: Philip Hutchison 
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 1:06 AM
To: [email protected] 
Subject: Re: Generate Share Embed with SwfObject?


it sounds to me like you want users to be able to copy the static embed code, 
not the dynamic embed code.  if you're doing static embed code, the 
swfobject.js file is not a requirement.

perhaps you wanted something like this?
http://pipwerks.com/lab/swfobject/display-markup/example.html

just be sure the URL for the SWF is an absolute URL.

- philip



On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Aran Rhee <[email protected]> wrote:


  For the swfobject.js include part the snippet could reference the static
  Google AJAX libraries API location of:
  http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/swfobject/2.1/swfobject.js


  Still messy since you should be placing the include and init code in the
  <head> of the document, rather than arbitrarily with the <body>. As you
  rightly said, just having the final generated code is not a workable
  solution.


  @jd - If you check out the embed code from YouTube etc, you can see that
  they have to remove any extra functionality such as Flash detection /
  ExpressInstall/ alt content etc and just hope for the best with their
  snippet.

  The only other way around it is to have the user pointed back to some server
  location which would dynamically create snippet code in the page like how ad
  servers work to display Flash ads - they either write js or iframe code into
  the calling page.



  Aran

  -----Original Message-----
  From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On

  Behalf Of Getify Solutions, Inc.
  Sent: Friday, 6 February 2009 1:29 AM
  To: [email protected]
  Subject: Re: Generate Share Embed with SwfObject?


  You could probably accomplish something like this, but the user is still
  gonna need to include swfobject.js to get the benefit of our library, so,
  giving them the "final" markup won't be that helpful cross-browser... you
  could give them the initial static markup that you use, and there's a number

  of ways that you could do that... but if you dynamically give them the
  markup that was generated by swfobject for your page, just for their browser

  environment, then any of their users who use it with a different browser
  will have a broken flash experience.  Does that make sense?


  --Kyle




  --------------------------------------------------
  From: "jd" <[email protected]>
  Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 8:25 AM
  To: "SWFObject" <[email protected]>
  Subject: Re: Generate Share Embed with SwfObject?

  >
  > Sort of like that, but I was hoping there was a method on the
  > swfobject js that could be called to generate the generic cross
  > browser embed code.  What I want is to embed our player on a page and
  > then have it so people who view the page can copy the embed code
  > easily to use on their own page, what I'm trying to generate is the
  > embed that the end users will copy (kind of like how on youtube they
  > present the user with an embed code they can use on their own site, I
  > want to do something like that and was hoping there was an easy way
  > with swfobject).
  >
  > On Feb 4, 8:13 pm, "Aran Rhee" <[email protected]> wrote:
  >> You mean like the SWFObject generator
  >> ?http://www.bobbyvandersluis.com/swfobject/generator/index.html
  >>
  >> There is also an AIR and downloadable HTML version
  >> here:http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/downloads/list
  >>
  >> Aran
  >>
  >> -----Original Message-----
  >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
  >>
  >> Behalf Of jd
  >> Sent: Thursday, 5 February 2009 1:54 AM
  >> To: SWFObject
  >> Subject: Generate Share Embed with SwfObject?
  >>
  >> Is there a way to use SwfObject to generate a generic embed code that
  >> could be displayed in an input or something for users to copy and use
  >> to embed the flash content in their own pages?
  > >
  >










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