Chapter 13. Publishing a Flash Movie
The first thing you have to understand about publishing a Macromedia Flash document to the Web is that the SWF file isn’t a Web document. When people tell you they have created a Flash site, that statement is not exactly correct. The SWF file can appear in your Web site only if it is embedded into an HTML page. Thus a “Flash site” is composed of your SWF file, any media–audio, video, images, text, XML documents–it might use from external sources, and the HTML page that “holds” the SWF file. You do not necessarily have to upload the file to a Web server to complete this lesson. You can create the HTML page, create the SWF file, and even try player detection without going online.
Publishing a movie involves a ...
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