Flash Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v3.03, by Dr. Herong Yang
Playing Flash with Nested "object.embed" Elements
This section provides a tutorial example on how to create nested 'object.embed' elements to allow both Firefox and IE to play a Flash file correctly.
From the previous chapter, we learned that two "object" elements in different styles can be nested together to include a Flash file in a HTML document to make both IE and Firefox happy as shown below:
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="217" height="85"> <param name="movie" value="yahoo.swf"> <object data="yahoo.swf" width="217" height="85"> <img src="yahoo.gif" width="217" height="85"/> </object> </object>
From this chapter, we learned that:
The question is now, can we nest an "embed" element inside an "object" element to make both IE and Firefox happy?
The answer is yes as shown in the example, object_embed_swf.html:
<html><body> <!-- object_embed_swf.html - Copyright (c) 2014, HerongYang.com, All Rights Reserved. --> <p>Flash with nested "object.embed" elements:</p> <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr><td> <!-- The outer "object" is for IE and ActiveX based browsers --> <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="217" height="85"> <param name="movie" value="yahoo.swf"/> <!-- The inner "embed" is for Firefox and other browsers --> <embed src="yahoo.swf" width="217" height="85"/> </object> </td></tr> </table> </body></html>
The nested "object" and "embed" elements in this example code is actually the way recommended by Adobe to include Flash files in HTML documents.
When IE opens this example code, it will render the outer "object" element and ignore the element content which is the inner "object" element.
When Firefox opens the example code, it will fail on the outer "object" element first. It will then render the element content which is the inner "embed" element.
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Table of Contents
Adobe Flash Player Plugin for Firefox
Adobe Flash Player Plugin for Chrome
Adobe Flash Player Plugin for Safari
Adobe Flash Player ActiveX for IE
Using "object" Elements for Flash Files
►Using "embed" Elements for Flash Files
Displaying Images as "embed" Elements - Example
Displaying Images as "embed" Elements on Firefox 26
Displaying Images as "embed" Elements on IE 10
Playing Flash as "embed" Elements - Example
Playing Flash as "embed" elements on Firefox 26
Playing Flash as "embed" Elements on IE 10
►Playing Flash with Nested "object.embed" Elements
"mp3player" - MP3 Music Player
SWFObject - Hidding "object" behind JavaScript
SWFTools - SWF File Manipulation Tools
SWFC Script to Generate Flash SWF Files
ActionScript Embedded in SWFC Script
AS3Compile - ActionScript 3 Compiler