Darin Kohles wrote: > As I mentioned, my > colleague had read an article about dropping the Embed tag, so I > thought I'd ask for the "Official" word on the subject.
Yes, Drew McLellan's "Flash Satay" article has been highly linked. Drew was seeking to make pages which make the validators happy by not including EMBED. He tested for simple visibility of SWF with only OBJECT in some undetermined browsers... I think he later named some of the browsers where he saw the SWF. But to my knowledge no one has done ongoing work against the various browser brands, in their various versions on the various platforms, in various HTML environments (inside DIV, with certain alignments, etc), with the full range of browser-dependent features (printing, JavaScript communication, data-passing etc). The best list I've seen about various browser differences when invoking plugins through OBJECT rather than their documented EMBED was at Geoff Stearn's place last spring... link and synopsis here: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2005/06/browser_object.cfm Summary: Until the browser vendors say they take responsibility for correctly invoking plugins via OBJECT, I'd have to urge staying with their documented EMBED. There are tricks to keep the validators happy when using that tag (dynamic JS writes, etc), but the core problem of the HTML 4.0 de jure spec disallowing the de facto standard of the day still has repercussions, even here in 2006. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. -- Flexcoders Mailing List FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
