Here's the page:

http://joshcanhelp.com/test/sdmc

You can look at the Flash object without the HTML and you can load a different Flash object with the HTML that is there but put these to together and it's no dice, nothing shows.

Any ideas? Thank you!

Did you try reading the stickies ?
http://www.webmaster-talk.com/html-f...audio-web.html

Yes... I tried the very basic part of the "Flash Satay" method with no luck. I'm trying to avoid javascript if at all possible. I know there are better ways to do this but this works with other Flash objects and now it isn't. I'm trying to figure out if there is a problem with the Flash or something else.

There are MAJOR problems with the site I took over so validity and method elegance, while important to me, takes a back seat to getting the site working.

I took a look at the source code and there seem to be some redundant forward slashes (/). Firefox shows these in red, which I take to be indicative that they are not required or wrongly used.

I don't really know if this IS the problem; I use html on the fly (whenever I face a problem with html, I look it up on the net). Perhaps you could open the .htm file in notepad, remove the / and see if it works.

This is an intriguing problem and I'll see if I can figure out the cause in a couple of days.

Deepak

Perhaps you could open the .htm file in notepad, remove the / and see if it works.

He's using an XHTML doctype, the closing / is REQUIRED in that doctype because ALL tags MUST be closed.

Thanks for the input... still not seeing these come up. Validated the XHTML and, besides the 20 some odd errors coming from the attribute tags, it looks ok.

I would recommend SWFObject, <embed> is not valid.
Are you sure the path to your SWF movie is correct ? I tried the path to the movie itself and it just sits there 'loading' for forever. How big are the files ??

I will definitely implement one of the valid methods with these but, for now, I just want them showing on the page.

The flash is XML loaded so the SWF files used are only 5K and 36K. The music for it is about 400K which is what might be taking a while. It's just a test MP3, the real one will be smaller.

If you leave it for about half a minute, it should show fine.

Thank you, by the way, for your help.

Like I said, I use html on the fly, so I'm by no means an expert. The path to the movie is correct, since, when I copy the path from the source code and paste it into a new tab, the movie plays after about 2 minutes (I have a relatively slow connection).

I'm looking at this as a learning experience for me.

Regards,
Deepak

Try this:

<object
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="flash.swf" 
width="381" height="408" title="high quality affordable custom design">
<param name="movie" value="flash.swf" /></object>

It's the method I like to use the most. Remember to change the size and the files to what is appropriate. It validates and works in IE6, IE7 and FF.

I'll try that out and see if it gets me anywhere, thank you.

Nope, nothing....

It's confounding that the SWF file would appear from a direct link but not in the XHTML.

Something must be wrong. How did you create the swf file?

I had it made for me... I have an email out to him now.

Problem solved.

I was calling the SWF object that was in a subfolder. XML file was using relative paths to access the content. I thought that if you were displaying an SWF that it would be like an imported CSS file, relative paths are followed from the directory of the import. Not quite the case for this one. I moved everything up one level and it works great.

Thanks for the embed/object information. That's next on the list of to-dos for the site.