Summary

• You can customize many Flash movie attributes by adjusting the attributes of the <object> and <embed> tags in an HTML document. Scaling, size, quality, and back ground color are just a few of the Flash movie properties that can be changed within HTML without altering the original .swf file.

• You can detect the Flash Player plug-in or ActiveX control in a variety of ways: by using the <object> and <embed> tags alone, by using JavaScript and VBScript to check for the presence of the plug-in or the ActiveX Control, or by inserting a Flash sniffer movie into an HTML document with a special <meta> tag.

• Flash 8 includes an updated Detect Flash Version feature in the Publish Settings. This feature automatically creates an HTML document with the appropriate JavaScript and HTML tags to check for a version of the Flash Player that you specify.

• Flash movies can interact with JavaScript and DHTML elements on a Web page. This type of interactivity, however, is limited to the 4.0 or higher versions of Internet Explorer (on 32-bit Windows versions) and more current versions of Mozilla compatible browsers.

• The Flash Player 8 plug-in can receive events and data from JavaScript. For example, JavaScript can query a Flash movie to determine how much of it has downloaded to the browser.