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Nov 28th, 2005, 15:23
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Compliant Flash?
Now striving for a 'Valid' homepage I realised that my flash movies aren't done correctly. I've learnt about the flash satay method (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay/) but found another site that recommended doing it another way (http://www.ambience.sk/flash-valid.htm). The problem is you can't specify the bground colour and so get an unsightly white space b4 the movie loads.
Do W3 actually tell us what we're supposed to do with Flash? Or do they just expect certain tech-geeks to figure out ways themselves, none of which are ever clear cut? This is ridiculous and I'm NOT happy!  
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Nov 28th, 2005, 15:49
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Re: Compliant Flash?
i used a similar method to flash satay on my companies site, pretty sure i didnt get a white space, check it out:
http://www.2cs.com/ClientBase.aspx?Client=Azure
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Nov 28th, 2005, 15:57
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Re: Compliant Flash?
It's difficult to tell. Your Flash has "loading..." text b4 it loads. Is this within the Flash movie itself or r u doing something in a way i haven't yet discovered? When it has loaded, the movie goes white just b4 it loads, which looks like it does the thing i'm talking about.
Flash movies go white b4 they load by default. That is, a white rectangle is shown as the exact dimensions of the movie. In Dreamweaver you can change the bground colour so that it matches the bground colour of your html page, so that there is no unsightly white block and it fits in nicer to the page. This is what seems to be impossible to do if u want your flash to be xhtml compliant, cos params such as this are strictly forbidden. A workaround/solution is all i'm after to getting a compliant flash with a specific bground colour.
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Nov 29th, 2005, 21:48
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Re: Compliant Flash?
I'm getting somewhere, but increasingly frustrated. Once again I ask: have W3 set out the recommendations for making compliant Flash or do they expect third party programnmers to guess what the best method is? I'm very annoyed with how difficult it is to implement compliant flash content. The whole issue is just nonsensical. Does anybody have the definitive answer as to how to implement flash.
I've found this link: http://blog.deconcept.com/2004/10/14...ect-and-embed/ I used the javascript on my homepage. The flash content is contained within a div. It works for one flash movie. However, my homepage has 3 movies on it and, as they are id's, cannot have more than one. I tried including them all within one div but now safari unexpectedly quits every time i view the page. What do i do? Anybody have the best method for multiple swf's on one page? This whole striving for a valid site is becoming increasingly unworthwhile given that i have so much flash content! Please help!
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Nov 30th, 2005, 00:02
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Re: Compliant Flash?
(I'm using this text to close off this thread as well)>>
OK. Lots of help and news here... It went belly up cos I had 3 swfs to get on my homepage whilst remaining valid. It went wrong cos I had assumed that all these divs had to be called "flashcontent" whereas in fact they just have to match what's inside the javascript: <div id="flashcontent"> You must download the Flash plugin or allow Javascript to view this content! <script type="text/javascript"> var fo = new FlashObject("homemenubar.swf", "homemenubar", "800", "40", "7", "#333333"); fo.write("flashcontent"); </script> </div> That's the code you stick into your html doc. You also have to put a link to the script in the <head>. Just look at my site CSA. If u want more info on what u can and can't do with the above code just ask or look at the site i gave u earlier. You'll see that for the other 2 swf's I've simply changed to "flashcontent2" & "flashcontent3". Problem solved. This solution also allows u to specify the bground colour of the swf and so keeps me happy! NOW... My site (homepage at least) PASSES Strict Validation and CSS. It's completelt table-less and so I've fulfilled my goal of doing this b4 December. www.crewsfx.com I should now win the Comp, which would be the only antidote to the immense pain I feel after complying with these stupid guidelines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cheers everyone whose helped!    
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