September 2001
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
31h 42m
English
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Adding Flash to a Web Page
Flash movies are generally added to web
pages using a combination of the <object>
and <embed>
tags with parameters and attributes
for controlling display and playback. Both tags are used in order to
accommodate the incompatibilities of Internet Explorer and Netscape
Navigator. Internet Explorer on Windows uses the
<object> tag, which enables it to
automatically download the ActiveX controls for playing Flash media.
Navigator (on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris) and Internet Explorer
on the Mac understand the <embed> element
for Flash placement.
You can either generate the HTML using Flash’s Publish feature or write it out by hand. This section takes a look at both methods.
Using Flash Publish Settings
The easiest way to get your
SWF files on the Web is to let Flash do the work
for you. Flash 4 introduced the “Publish” feature for
exporting movies along with automatically-generated HTML for placing
it in an HTML document. The built-in Publish function replaces the
AfterShock utility used with previous versions of Flash.
The Publish Settings dialog box also allows you to select the export format of the movie (whether it’s to be a Flash movie, Generator template, static graphic format, and so on) and control the variables of the export. For now, we’ll focus on the HTML settings that are relevant to placing an SWF movie on a page.
The most welcomed feature of the HTML Publish Settings is the
collection of pre-formatted templates that generates
<object> and ...
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