{"id":120,"date":"2009-11-12T00:43:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T07:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artisticimposter.com\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2009-11-12T00:43:33","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T07:43:33","slug":"adding-flash-to-a-w3c-compliant-web-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artisticimposter.com\/blog\/adding-flash-to-a-w3c-compliant-web-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding Flash to a W3C Compliant Web Page"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few months ago, I decided to redesign and rebuild by Web site. Previously, I haven’t worried much about W3C compliance, but I decided for this redesign I would pay more attention and make sure each page validated on the W3C Validator<\/a>. At first this wasn’t a big deal…then I began to add Flash objects to my site and I got all kinds of errors.<\/p>\n

For a few years now, I have used Dreamweaver to build my Web sites. When I added a Flash object to an HTML file, Dreamweaver automatically generated this code:<\/p>\n

<script>
\nAC_FL_RunContent( ‘codebase’,’https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0′,’width’,’700′,’height’,’211′,’title’,
\n‘flashmovie’,’src’,\u2019flashmovie’,’quality’,’high’,’pluginspage’, ‘https:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer’,’movie’,’flashmovie);
\n\/\/end AC code
\n<\/script><noscript><object classid=”clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000″ codebase=”https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0″ width=”700″ height=”211″ title=”flashmovie”> <param name=”movie” value=”flashmovie.swf” \/> <param name=”quality” value=”high” \/> <embed src=”flashmovie.swf” quality=”high” pluginspage=”https:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer” type=”application\/x-shockwave-flash” width=”700″ height=”211″><\/embed> <\/object><\/noscript><\/p>\n

Besides being pretty hefty, the code from Dreamweaver will not validate with the W3C Validator.<\/p>\n

Another option for creating the code to import Flash into the page is publishing the HTML document directly out of Flash. When I attempted this, the code generated by Flash looked like this:<\/p>\n

<object classid=”clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000″ codebase=”https:\/\/fpdownload.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0″ width=”700″ height=”211″ align=”middle”> <param name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”sameDomain” \/> <param name=”movie” value=”flashmovie.swf” \/><param name=”quality” value=”high” \/><param name=”bgcolor” value=”#999966″ \/><embed src=”flashmovie.swf” quality=”high” bgcolor=”#999966″ width=”700″ height=”211″ name=”flashmovie” align=”middle” allowScriptAccess=”sameDomain” type=”application\/x-shockwave-flash” pluginspage=”https:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer” \/>
\n<\/object><\/p>\n

While slightly less hefty, the code generated by Flash still will not validate. After much fruitless experimentation, I took my problem to that great guru of all human knowledge, the Internet. Eventually, I came across a 2002 article by Drew McLellan on\u00a0A List Apart<\/a>. In this article, the author details the same issues I have been having and gives a solution he came up with, which he calls the Satay Method. Simply put, the author rewrote the script to be more efficient and included a container movie to trick Internet Explorer into streaming the main movie. Instead of using a container movie, I used Drew McLellan\u2019s code to load the main movie directly, making my code look like this:<\/p>\n

<object type=”application\/x-shockwave-flash” data=”flashmovie.swf” width=”640″ height=”400″>
\n<param name=”movie” value=”flashmovie.swf” \/>
\n<\/object>\n<\/p>\n

Now my code validated, but I still had a problem: the buttons in my Flash movie wouldn\u2019t open other pages when I tested in it Windows. I went back to the Internet and discovered a simple solution:<\/p>\n

<object type=”application\/x-shockwave-flash” data=”flashmovie.swf” width=”640″ height=”400″>
\n<param name=”allowScriptAccess” value=”always” \/><\/strong>
\n<param name=”movie” value=”flashmovie.swf” \/>
\n<\/object><\/p>\n

Now my pages validate and the ActionScript in my Flash movie works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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