Getting flash to validate?

[newoptical]

http://www.newoptical.net/

Hi. I'm currently trying to make the lastfm radio player in the above page validate as strict xhtml. Could anyone be so kind as to point me in the right direction? I think there's a way..

[Sgaspar11]

Something that looked like this, will validate.

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<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="myMovie.swf" width="431" height="68">
<param name="movie" value="myMovie.swf" />
<param name="BGCOLOR" value="#000000" />
<a title="You must install the Flash Plugin for your Browser in order to view this movie" href="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates/"><img src="needplugin.gif" width="431" height="68" alt="placeholder for flash movie" /></a>
</object>

Cheers,

Scott

[The Matt.]

As far as I'm aware the best supported method for getting flash to validate in a site is to use the Satay method: http://alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay

another way which I've seen people use is by loading the flash using javascript http://www.osflash.org/ufo

Both are pretty easy to implement too.

[saltedm8]

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<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="root/to/yourheader.swf" width="780" height="169">
<param name="movie" value="root/to/yourheader.swf" />
<img src="http://www.webforumz.com/images/root/image.jpg" width="780" height="169" alt="banner" />
</object>

this definetly validates