Embedding Flash

Flash is an animated image format from Macromedia (now part of Adobe) that is widely used on the Web.

To embed Flash:

1.	Begin the object element with <object.
2.	Use type="application/x-shockwave-flash" to indicate the MIME type for Flash animations.
3.	Type data="filename.swf", where filename.swf is the name and location of the Flash animation on your server.
4.	Specify the dimensions of your animation with width="w" height="h", where w and h are both values in pixels.
5.	Finish the opening object tag by typing >.
6.	Add <param name="movie" value="filename.swf" />, where filename.swf matches what you used in step 3.
7.	Type </object> to complete the object. Figure 18.48. To embed Flash, set the MIME type to application/x-shockwave-flash.

Figure 18.49. The Flash animation is embedded on the pagewithout the nonstandard embed.

Tips

• This technique is based on the article Flash Satay by Drew McLellan in A List Apart (www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay).

• Drew figured out a way to use small reference movies to help Flash animations stream properly with this technique. See his article for details.

• Many people use a combination of object and the non-standard embed tag to insert Flash on a Web page. For more details, search for embed Flash on Adobe's site (http://www.adobe.com/).