[thelist] Help help help - Flash

Chris Price chris.price at choctaw.co.uk
Fri Jul 23 17:18:55 CDT 2004


I read an article at http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/07/02/dive.html
re: XHTML2 and the commented [if !IE] is mentioned there though not exactly
as you've got it
E.g.
<!--[if !IE] --> 
<object..>
</object>
<!-- <![endif] -->

What do you do about an alternative image or text?

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Chris Price

On 23/7/04 8:33 pm, "Seth Thomas Rasmussen" <seth at sethrasmussen.com> wrote:

>> Oh yeah, probably because of what I just discovered now: I can't
>> find the link to where I first got clued in to this method:
>> 
>> <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
>> 
> codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.ca
>> b#version=6,0,29,0" width="760" height="178">
>> <param name="movie" value="banner.swf" />
>> <param name="quality" value="high" />
>> <!--[if !IE]> <-->
>> <object
>> data="banner.swf"
>> width="760"
>> height="178"
>> type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
>>> 
>> <param name="quality" value="high" />
>> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" />
>> <param name="pluginurl"
>> value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
>> </object>
>> <!--> <![endif]-->
>> </object>
>> 
>> Works, validates, no need for a "shell movie" or any scripting. Just two
>> <object>s with different attributes. Conditional comments serve one to IE,
>> and the other to everybody else.
>> 
>> I really wish I could find the page for it though... :(
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