Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Putting it together for all browsers

To make your Flash content available to the maximum number of users, it is recommended that you use both the object and embed elements. It is important to keep the embed element within the object elements so Internet Explorer users don’t get two copies of your movie.

To place an anti-aliased Flash 8 animation on the page with a width of 550 and a height of 400, that plays and loops automatically, you could use code like this:

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.
cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="550" height="400" id="animation" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="animation.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="autohigh" />
<param name="play" value="true" />
<param name="loop" value="true" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
<embed src="test.swf" quality="autohigh" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="550"
height="400" name="test" align="middle" play="true" loop="true"
allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>