@Sam - Exactly what I was going to say :) .... @Jim - If you use Dynamic publishing, then you are left with normal HTML markup on your page (no object tags) until the Flash replacement happens.
Your page will look like this: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" " http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd";> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> swfobject.embedSWF("some.swf", "alternativeContent", "800", "600", "9.0.0"); </script> </head> <body> <div id="alternativeContent"> Lynx will read this... </div> </body> </html> Aran On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Sam Sherlock <[email protected]>wrote: > Have you tried dynamic rather than static swfobject publishing? > > - S > > > > > 2010/1/27 JimP <[email protected]> > > thanks for the reply. >> >> no, the problem is that LYNX displays absolutely NOTHING. I've checked >> the docs, deleted my work, started it again...same outcome. >> >> Unfortunately, it transpires that there is a bug in Lynx whereby it >> will stop processing anything between <object> and </object> >> tags....so it totally ignores the alternate content you are supplying >> it. This is widely regarded to be a fault with Lynx not following >> recomendations, so yes, SWFObject WOULD appear to be working correctly >> (according to spec) even though this still leaves some users with no >> content. >> >> I'm going to check it in OTHER text-based browsers, if it works OK i >> can presume the content is still accessible, just not to Lynx >> users.....i'll have to decide if thats acceptible or not. >> I was wondering if anyone has already been down this road? >> >> >> >> >> >> On Jan 26, 11:02 pm, Aran Rhee <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Jim >> > >> > If the browser is text based, then it will not execute the javascript >> which >> > swaps the alternate content div text to a Flash file. Lynx etc should be >> > displaying whatever the alternate content div was defined with initially >> on >> > the page. Is this not the case for you? >> > >> > You might want to (re)read the documentation in regards to how the >> > progressive mark-up is handled. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > Aran >> > >> > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:55 AM, JimP <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > > I have been looking into using SWFobject for our (cs3 designed) flash >> > > movies, both for the usual SEO reasons AND to enhance the site's >> > > accessibility for disabled users. >> > > I have implemented it on a test site and noticed afterwards that >> > > SWFObject doesn't render ANYTHING out to text-based browsers such as >> > > lynx. >> > > Because there is no EMBED code, we cant use the NOEMBED....has anyone >> > > got any thoughts on how to get content out for text-based readers? >> > > Presumably this too would help SEO wise so I'm a little conflicted as >> > > to the best way to do things. >> > > The old style adobe-supplied script at least renders out the NOEMBED >> > > tag information if you supply it. >> > > How about a NOSCRIPT tag containing the accessible content? Would that >> > > be a good route to go down? Or am i going to compromise SEO rankings >> > > then because they will index the same content from both the SWFObject >> > > code AND the NOSCRIPT code? >> > >> > > -- >> > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > > "SWFObject" group. >> > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> > > [email protected]<swfobject%[email protected]> >> <swfobject%[email protected]<swfobject%[email protected]> >> > >> > > . >> > > For more options, visit this group at >> > >http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "SWFObject" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]<swfobject%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SWFObject" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<swfobject%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SWFObject" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en.
