Help please, with Validation.

[rapidz]

I'm using embedded material on my website, but I've used a workaround so that you do not have to click to activate the flash applet.

The thing is, regardless of whether I use the workaround or not, my page will not validate with embedded material.

Is there a way round this?

My page is http://www.rapidz.co.uk/cerulean/index.htm

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

rapidz.

[WebJoel]

You should be able to use the <object></object> tag to 'embed' a video or other file. I used this recently to make load an other-site calendar for a client into the site that I built for her. It came as quite a relief that this worked, -I was considering installing an RSS feed (if the calendar site allowed it, which it didn't because it's a 'security risk' to not have her site in the same server as the RSS feed, or some such excuse...).
If you need more information or help with <object>, let me know and I'll copy&paste a sample of what to do. 'Embedding' Flash requires using a "classid" attribute to call the ActiveX control. Go to the site http://www.macromedia.com and check their "embedding files" section (it may be of a similar name). They will more information for MIME types, etc.

[Moridin]

This link might help you.

Bye Bye Embed (http://alistapart.com/articles/byebyeembed)

- Moridin

[rapidz]

i'm still a little confused...

All i want to do, is to be able to have a flash applet on my page... and for that page to validate correctly.

Thanks for the help though guys. Any more would be appreciated.

rapidz.

[_Aerospace_Eng_]

What are you confused about? Did you read any of the links given to you? If you did you would have known that you needed to change this
<noscript><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="436" height="20">
<param name="movie" value="src/fla/navigation.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="src/fla/navigation.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="436" height="20"></embed>
</object></noscript>
to this
<noscript><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="src/fla/navigation.swf" width="436" height="20">
<param name="movie" value="src/fla/navigation.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
</object></noscript>

[rapidz]

What are you confused about? Did you read any of the links given to you? If you did you would have known that you needed to change this
<noscript><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="436" height="20">
<param name="movie" value="src/fla/navigation.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="src/fla/navigation.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="436" height="20"></embed>
</object></noscript>
to this
<noscript><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="src/fla/navigation.swf" width="436" height="20">
<param name="movie" value="src/fla/navigation.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
</object></noscript>

my bad... thankyou very much for the help.