If you’ve ever worked with Flash and HTML (and who hasn’t?), we’ve all come to a point where we need to embed a Flash movie into an HTML page. This is usually the same point where you cringe, especially if you need to validate your HTML/XHTML (and you should!). Embedding Flash can result in an ugly mess of code like this one:
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="550" height="400" id="Untitled-1" align="middle"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /> <param name="movie" value="mymovie.swf" /> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" /> <embed src="mymovie.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="550" height="400" name="mymovie" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer" /> </object>