Hi, Thanks for your replies on this. I'd embedded the movie in the way Tim described -- I was thinking more along the lines of what you would do when you use this method to deal with the inevitable messages you get when you don't have the plugin installed. You'd get round this with a detection script like swfobject which Tom mentions, but this is too JS reliant for me.
I'm thinking it will be best to go down the route of embedding Flash (and not QT) using the standards-compliant/conditional comment path. The "you need an additional plugin blah blah" message isn't as alarming for Flash as it is for Quicktime on some platforms. Plus, the Flash player's a lot more lightweight, so people won't have to worry about also downloading iTunes and other nonsense as they do with QT. I think the answer here may lie in descriptive help text about which plugin you may need rather than anything more complex Thanks again, David On 27/06/07, Tom Livingston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/27/07, David Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for some advice on best practice methods of embedding a > QT/Flash movie in a page in a standards compliant way, so any ideas > would be very gratefully received! > I use this: http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/ Not sure about "best practice" but it's served us well. There is a couple issues, but really what method doesn't have it's issues. I am particularly fond of the way it handles alt-content. ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
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