Embedded Shockwave movies

**Skorch** · 05-02-2005, 11:20 PM

I am using shockwave movies on my site(cliff jumping not ads) They are treated as embedded articles and require an attribute called pluginspage=yadayadayada. I used macromedia flash to make the movies. Is there a validatable way to embed swf movies in a webpage? When it goes through the validator the swf code to embed and play the file create at least 10 errors. I am a relative newbie in the webmastter world and am just totally lost on this subject. I also don't think IE recognizes these as swf files either though it could be a local problem with my browser(Firefox is great!)

Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks.

My url for a page with this problem is http://12feetunder.com/CliffJumpingCalifornia.htm

**Brian07002** · 05-03-2005, 01:06 PM

Hey I am not too good at flash, however, my main reason for replying was that I seen your pics on your site, and man..You guys ROCK! Cliff Diving Rocks!! REALLY IT DOES! Looks crazy, yet exciting, but d-a-m-n, I never seen it before!

An interesting sight for sore eyes, that's for d-a-m-n sure!
Just my thoughts ~

-Brian

**Skorch** · 05-03-2005, 01:38 PM

Did you happen to check out the videos page? Thanks!

**CasaPages** · 05-03-2005, 04:18 PM

You want validity you got it buddy......

Here is the XHTML code

HTML Code:

     <div style="text-align: center;">
 <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version='5,0,42,0'"
       id="Movie1" width="374" height="224">
       <param name="moviename" value="moviename.swf" />
       <param name="quality" value="High" />
       <param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" />
       <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
     <script type="text/javascript" src="moviename.js">
       <noscript>
        javascript support required
       </noscript>
     </object>
     </div>

and create the following "moviename.js" file

Code:

if (navigator.mimeTypes && navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"]) {
       document.writeln('  <embed name="moviename" src="moviename.swf"');
       document.writeln('   quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" swLiveConnect="true" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain"');
       document.writeln('   width="374" height="224"');
       document.writeln('   type="application/x-shockwave-flash"');
       document.writeln('   pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>');
       } else {
       document.writeln('No flash player plugin installed');
       }

The Java Script controls how the flash is viewed in FireFox and the xhtml controls how the flash is viewed in IE

set your height and width according to your file size, make sure to do this in both the XHTML and java file....

you may have to mess with the "ref" locations.....

I personally keep the .js file with the flash movie in their own folder

and this is all valid code....