"object" Element with Flash Parameters

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∟"object" Element with Flash Parameters

This section provides a tutorial example on how to provide Flash parameters in 'object' elements. The SWF file is provided twice, in the 'data' attribute and in the 'movie' parameter.

If you look at the source code of "mp3player" examples presented in previous sections, you will see that 3 "param" sub elements are used to provide special parameters to the Flash Player: "movie", "wmode" and "FlashVars".

The use of "movie" parameter to provide the SWF file seems to be unnecessary, because the SWF file is already provided in the "object[@data]" attribute:

<object data="player_mp3_maxi.swf" ...>
   <param name="movie" value="player_mp3_maxi.swf"/>
   <param name="wmode" value="transparent"/>
   <param name="FlashVars" value=".../>
</object>

In order to understand why we need specify the SWF file twice, I wrote the following tutorial example, mp3player_object_param.html:

<html><body>
<!-- mp3player_object_param.html
 - Copyright (c) 2014, HerongYang.com, All Rights Reserved.
-->

<p>mp3player Test 1:</p>
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" 
   data="player_mp3_maxi.swf"
   width="200" height="20">
   <param name="wmode" value="transparent"/>
   <param name="movie" value="player_mp3_maxi.swf"/>
   <param name="FlashVars"
   value="mp3=Music_Sample.mp3&amp;config=mp3player_config.txt"/>
</object>

<p>mp3player Test 2:</p>
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" 
   width="200" height="20">
   <param name="wmode" value="transparent"/>
   <param name="movie" value="player_mp3_maxi.swf"/>
   <param name="FlashVars"
   value="mp3=Music_Sample.mp3&amp;config=mp3player_config.txt"/>
</object>

<p>mp3player Test 3:</p>
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" 
   data="player_mp3_maxi.swf"
   width="200" height="20">
   <param name="wmode" value="transparent"/>
   <param name="FlashVars"
   value="mp3=Music_Sample.mp3&amp;config=mp3player_config.txt"/>
</object>

<p>mp3player Test 4:</p>
<object 
   data="player_mp3_maxi.swf"
   width="200" height="20">
   <param name="wmode" value="transparent"/>
   <param name="FlashVars"
   value="mp3=Music_Sample.mp3&amp;config=mp3player_config.txt"/>
</object>

</body></html>