I love these little tips…quick and easy ways to verify your work or discover an alternate way to do things. Thanks.

I always use swfobject for swf-files in html.
http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/

Everyone – If you enjoy these quick tips, please leave a comment and let us know. We’ll be experimenting with a nightly (hopefully) quick tip this week. If we find that you all like them, we’ll continue! Otherwise, they’re gone.

Please leave a comment and let us know your thoughts! Thanks.

-Jeffrey

do you know of a way to include a flash file as a link. I want to display a thumbnail and when clicked on will bring up the larger image in the lightbox. Both images I want to be .swf.

Keep them coming, although they may be obvious to some im sure theres tips out there that would benefit everyone in one way or another

Funny as I read something similar, oh, maybe a two weeks ago and I forgot to bookmark it for later reading. So thanks Connor, just what I needed.

Jeffrey Bring on the tips (Bit sized or Super sized – both are always welcome)

Keep ‘em coming.. I knew this one but i’m sure you have loads up your sleeves that I won’t know!

Glad you found this useful Jonathan.

great tip, very useful thanks!

Great tip, thanks for sharing!

These tips are of great importance. Cleaner code makes for a better WWW.
It would be great to see something on a somewhat regular basis like this. Even the simplest of things can be new to a whole audience of people. Especially those of us who have been doing the “old” or “wrong” way for so many years.

I can’t wait for more.

inside the object tag you should put an image or something for those that dont have flash/need to upgrade

Great little tip, thanks

Of course post some quick tips! It’s better than not having any updates This was useful I’m sure for some people (I never use Flash).

We Like Tips!

You’re right Furley, but I figured that that wasn’t ‘quick’ enough

Won’t this fall prey to the IE Click to Activate “feature?”

Is it not better to use swfobject to get around the activeX problem in good ole Internet Explorer?

Thanks for this. And that’d be a great feature for the site!

Great tip, Keep them up Jeffrey

I really do enjoy these ‘quick tips’ and think they will be a great feature for the site! Keep ‘em coming!

What about youtube?

Great Tips!!!

Though, I do think that a better solution for embedding flash in a page is through SWFObject. I would recommend looking into it and doing either a quick tip or full tutorial on it.

http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/

Thanks for this tip. I will have to try it. I didn’t know there was an alternative to embed.

love the quick tips.

Love the tips! First thing i check when i get to work in the morning is the nettuts feed!

+1 for more quick tips. These little tidbits are what make good coders great.

Sorry to be negative, but your quick tip is kind of old news (more than a year)
I apologize to all the people that already posted and didn’t know about it.

@Dever – I don’t think it is possible for a tip to be “old news”.

keep em

Dreamweaver will automatically prompt you to fix it if you do it wrong.

@Jeffrey:
Valid point! lol

May I suggest as an improvement to the site, you make an easy way to where we can contact you. I’m not sure if my comment was lost in all of them or what, but I’d still love to hear from you Jeffrey via email if you will.

I would appreciate it

@Braden – Just emailed you.

Forget the object method as it still has the problem of the users having to click on the flash to focus it plus too many browser’s handle the object code differently for it to be a successful implementation.

just use swfobject – http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/

Bookmarked!

ghetto.
Very helpful
Will use

Does this work for FlashPaper documents as well? The only way I can get them to work successfully in Firefox and IE is to upload using Contribute software. I would love to just embed them directly from my code. Any ideas?

This is actually still not the correct way to embed Flash. SWFObject must be used or your Flash will not operate correctly in Internet Explorer.

keep it coming. i like these feature of the site. quick tips for us. very helpful.

@Robin leave the damn internet explorer behind.

Robin is right.

Insic > you cannot leave the IE behind, because still most of the users are browsing with IE and you don’t want to lost them.

Ok worked fine for me, still the question that stopped me using this a year ago why doesn’t it support flashvars for firefox?

any idea how this can be worked around?

Just got this from adobe live docs “FlashVars must be assigned in both the object and embed tags in order to work on all browsers.”

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/main/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Parts&file=00000668.html

so again wont be using it, its either good old un-valid way or swfobject.

though good post and keep em coming “meaning the quick tips”.

Cheers

good tutorial but i think swfobject def takes the cake. Perfect solution and it does everything you need.

1. ie activation problem
2. cross browser
3. can install flash if user doesnt have it.
or
gracefully show something to replace flash.

Great info, works perfectly but I still don’t understand why Firefox don’t support
Firefox is making a ness of the flash with this param
This param is working great in IE7, Opera 9.5 and Safari 3.x.

You’ll all have to keep using SWFObject for the time being I’m afraid as this solution only works for Internet Explorer.

I really would have expected the author to have checked this method using both Firefox and Safari before telling people this is the correct way to embed flash?

I’m sure that the people who don’t already use SWFObject appreciated this ‘tip’ but if the proposed solution isn’t cross-browser compatible then for me it isn’t a viable solution.

Kind regards,

M.

Yep, very useful. I’m still a tiny bit anti flash (mainly because I am a real n00b in that area) but when I do get around to using it I’ll be using the methods described in this tut! thanks!

This might be old news for some of you but Microsoft actually removed the ‘click to activate’ from IE in April this year!!

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/04/08/ie-automatic-component-activation-now-available.aspx

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/activecontent/

Obviously this relies on people to update their systems. Eventually though it will be a thing of the past

I’m not keen on flash either. Typically, as a user, I find flash sites use poor UI and annoy the hell out of me.

That’s not really relevant though – I like the idea of the quick tips on nettuts.

One more thing – it’s the W3C, not w3, though w3 is the domain name – perhaps that’s what you meant?

@insic said “@Robin leave the damn internet explorer behind.”

Unfortunately, millions of users are not as informed as us net geeks and use IE on a daily basis. We still have to deal with it

Thanks for the tip.
Good to know.

;D short but informativ!

Supporting theese quick tips
Keep them comming.

Quick tips are goooooooo!

Keep the quick tips!

Very useful! The quick tips are great.

Yeah…You’re right W3C is the name of the World Wide Web Consortium. But I was more referring to their site’s validator. And their site is w3.org.

I use swfobject (well I am trying to warn my clients to stop with Flash…) but this method is a rapid way to get flash on a page. Anyway the tips must go on. Thanks a lot

One thing to point out, an additional benefit of using the object tag is that object tags can be nested, making “graceful degradability” an automatic process.

In one of the examples on http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-object.html, you can see how this can be used to smoothly degrade from a java applet to an embedded video file, to a still image, and finally to text. The user never sees the “alternate” versions unless the “better” versions can’t be displayed.

Do not use this solution.

Use either Flash CS3’s JavaScript solution or SWFObject. Using this tutorial as your sole means of embedding Flash is just insane.

Great tip !

Thanks!

It sould be clear by now that this tutorial is giving a bad advice. Many knowledgeable users have already pointed-out that this method does not work in Safari and FireFox, and therefore using SWFObject method is still the only “good” method for embedding Flash.
Either nobody reads other people’s comments before posting theirs, or the “Great tip! thanks” comments that keep pilling-up are fakes.

As far as I know, this won’t work in all browsers. OBJECT and EMBED are supported (poorly) across browsers differently. W3C may insist on a particular method, but that doesn’t mean that IE6, IE7, and Firefox agree that they (W3C) are correct.

I love the simplicity of the means you provided here – I just don’t think that any type of object embedding has such a clean, elegant solution (though I wish it did!). Sort of like trying to embed a video file… dear lord. The work you need to go through to make sure it’s cross-browser compatible is just ridiculous.

great tip…… tks a ton.

can u also give some seo tips for a flash website? i mean i have my website — http://www.redesignyourbiz.com — which has the menu and other pages in one single movie. how can i score well with search engines?

thank your for the tip.

Nice little tip, thanks!

Quicktips ftw.

Nice tip! Keep’em comming.

Great Tip!

I have been searching for a while on how to embed flash and get it w3c valid.

Thanks!

I agree with some of the other commentators here – this is an odd tip when there is such patchy support for the object tag.

It remains a frustration for developers that the slightly fiddly swfobject, or invalid code, are the best ways forward.

Does anyone know what is being done by Adobe / W3C / browser vendors to improve the situation?

Quick tips like these are a great idea.

I also use swfobject as its easy to have alternate content that is SEO friendly..

Very nice!

Awesome! Thanks, man, keep ‘em coming!

nice & short… and usefull!!!!!

tnx a lot 4 the tip!

saved my life today. thank you. appreciated.

@insic…. you’re awesome
@dever… you’re not, you wiseacre

Keep the tips – and Jeffrey – you’re right; there’s no such thing as “old news”

i found this from my bookmarks..

http://latrine.dgx.cz/how-to-correctly-insert-a-flash-into-xhtml

This is why I said it’s old news (look at the article’s date). I also use(d) swfobject (I really like that you can show something when flash is disabled or not present).

Problems I found with simular things to this while experimenting is with only object tags in a strict doc it won’t in many major browsers like ie and opera. If you add in noscript tags around such stuff it will work in them but then won’t validate. So I am still hunting for the right combination that validates, works in most browsers, and offers an option to get flash if needed.

Apart from all the other comments, another thing I’ve noticed, is that it seems to load the flash file twice, according to Firebug.

nice tip! thanks!

Thank you for this one, I never knew of this.

Excellent Tips… Thanks

Caveats, caveats, caveats… This is a downgraded version A List Apart’s Flash Satay, by “downgraded” I mean it omits bits of code that will cause movies implemented with this method to stop streaming in IE. You will not notice the lag with smaller movies, but with larger ones you will see nothing but a big blank area until the _entire_ movie loads. There is a way to get around this (see/google: Flash Satay,) but it requires a separate “preloader” for every movie and an extra line of markup in your HTML.

Frankly, the whole thing is too much of a pain in the ass for me to bother with. I use conditional comments instead, which are sandwiched between simplified object and embed tags. No, it’s not ideal either, but all the other ways I’ve seen always involve more code and/or more work, making it a nightmare to maintain and read, and this way at least it validates!

What cenovis said about this method of embedding flash is correct.

***THIS METHOD BOTHCES YOUR FLASH FILES. ESPECIALLY THE PRELOADERS WONT WORK IN IE, AND YOUR USERS WILL SEE NOTHING BUT A BLANK BOX TILL THE WHOLE THING LOADS***

I spent many frustrating hours trying to figure out what the problem is, and all the while, this was right under my nose, causing me intense agony.

Personally, and after this experience, particularly, I decided to stick with the code that Flash CS3 spews out. It may be large/overwhelming/blah blah, but it works like a charm in all browsers, and that is what matters: your users seeing what you want them to.

Aditya.

It really helps, thanks mate

Very useful tip. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the tip. I have always hated how flash breaks the w3c validation page.

Oh Thanks very much I love this topic I have the serious problem about ajax loading my flash for many days I try to find the way to fix it but I can’t till I’ve read this topic wowww woww I can now thanks god.

Nice, but this not funtion in ie6

Nice tip, I was working from the HTML publish from Flash and it was all messy, now that I’ve started to picking up some more clean coding everything seems to float easier, thank you to everyone who gives this value information out, you guys are great!

Thanks, after I read this article, my flash header is perfect now.

thanx so much I was looking everywhere for this

works perfectly

Finallly… valid flash syntax… any way to add fullscreen?

great tip, thanks!

This is a very neat and tidy method, but it doesn’t take into account browser compatibility or checking for the correct flash version, which other methods do very effectively.

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Very good tips .
Thank you.

Without a doubt the “standard” way of adding flash is SWFObject… in fact — now it’s SWFObject2 and there are plenty of “extras” you can do with it.

I recommend checking out http://www.gotoandlearn.com

Good stuff regardless

L

what a terrible tip