On Dec 12, 2005, at 10:18 AM, morten fjellman wrote:
I have used the following code for a couple of years now, and have
never had any problems with it.
<object
...
<!--[if !IE]> <-->
<object data="header.swf"
...
</object>
<!--> <![endif]-->
</object>
I'm about to launch a site using a slightly enhanced form of this
technique, based on Hixie's method:
<!--[if IE]>
<object width="89" height="13" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/
swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0">
<param name="movie" value="/swf/audio.swf" />
<param name="flashvars" value="code=Van_Vorst_Park" />
<![endif]--><!--[if !IE]>-->
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="89" height="13"
data="/swf/audio.swf?code=Van_Vorst_Park">
<!--<![endif]-->
<a href="/Film/Van_Vorst_Park/audioblog_1.mp3"><img src="/img/text/
buttons/audioblog.gif" width="89" height="13" alt="audioblog" /></a>
</object>
The enhancement is mostly some combined redundancies, and an
alternate content viewable by IE. (Morten's version hides the inner
object and therefore its alternate from IE.)
The only problems I've found with variants of Hixie's method do not
apply to my site, but may apply to you. Safari apparently does not
read the param values of an object tag. (Please let me know if I'm
misinterpreting its symptoms.) This means that flashvars need to be
passed in the url (bad for caching), and that things like bgcolor or
wmode need to be set as attributes within the object tag. Such
proprietary attributes, of course, invalidate the tag.
--
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http://www.bivia.com
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