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HTML and Flash
Normally, you can place a Flash movie on an HTML
page either automatically by using File-->Publish or with Dreamweaver
by first exporting the file and then placing the Flash file in
Dreamweaver using the Object Inspector. [See Exporting
SWF files for more on this]
However, if you wish to make your pages manually
or are interested in the tags used to embed a Flash movie, you
should know how Flash integrates with HTML.
Tags:
The two main tags used to integrate Flash content
in HTML are <EMBED> and <OBJECT>
The difference between these two is dependent on
the browser. The <EMBED> tag provides
the needed information for Netscape, which uses only plugins and
the <OBJECT> tag provides the necessary
information for Internet Explorer which uses ActiveX components.
To successfully integrate a Flash movie into a Web page so that
it works both on Netscape and Explorer requires the use of both
tags.
What's the difference between Plug-ins and Active
X?
Both plug-ins and Active X components are designed
to exten the capabilities of HTML because alone the browser supports
only JPEG and GIF images. Through add on software, developers
can add nearly any element. One such element can be shockwave
flash.
Use the <OBJECT>
and <EMBED> tags inside the <BODY>
section of your Web page. Explorer ignores Embed and interprets
Object, while Netscape ignores Object and reads only Embed information.
Here is an example of how the file head.swf from
above is embedded in the page:
<object width="400" height="40"
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#4,0,2,0">
<param name="SRC" value="head.swf">
<param name="QUALITY" value="high">
<param name="TYPE" value="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param
name="LOOP" value="false">
<embed width="400" height="40" src="head.swf"
quality="high" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/"
loop="false">
<noembed><img src="images/head3-animated.gif"
width="400" height="40"></noembed>
</embed>
</object>
Read more about this in Patton 485-487 or in Mohler
307-310
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