Adding Flash to a Web Page
Flash movies are exported by the Flash authoring environment using a combination of the object and embed elements with parameters and attributes for controlling display and playback. Both elements are used in order to accommodate the incompatibilities of the various web browsers while still providing as many player attribute settings as possible.
Internet Explorer on Windows uses the object element, which also enables it to automatically download the ActiveX controls for playing Flash media. Netscape on PC and Mac, and Internet Explorer and Safari on Mac, do not support ActiveX, so they use embedding information provided by the embed element. Note, the embed element is not standards-compliant and doubles much, if not all, of the information found in the object element.
You can generate the HTML using Flash’s Publish feature, write it out by hand, or add a Flash element to a page using a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) editor such as Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004. The following sections take a look at the first two methods.
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