Get Flash to validate in W3C

** UPDATE: Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) will add a boarder around the Flash object and I seen IE7 show a security message as well. I'm currently creating a new method so that Flash will validate with W3C and work with Internet Explorer 7 - Check this website soon or email me using the form on the right for an update on my progress **

Have you tried to embed Flash (.swf) files into your web site and then tried to put it through W3C web site to validate?

For some reason the code Macromedia use will not validate! I tried to get it to work on my web site for ages and spent hours on the Macromedia support web site. It seems that the HTML code is out of date and does not conform or validate to W3C standards.

To get round this I've come up with the following code which will validate and as you can see is a lot cleaner than the Macromedia HTML

This code can also let you have a JPEG or GIF in place of the Flash for pleople that don't have a Flash plug-in installed in their browser

You'll need to remove the "*"

<*object
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="YOUR-FLASH.swf" width="775" height="90">
<*param name="movie" value="YOUR-FLASH.swf">
<*img src="YOUR-FLASH-IMAGE.jpg" alt="ALT text for replacment image" width="775" height="90">
<*/object>

Let me know how you get on or if you have any improvments to the code. This code will also validate in the Bobby website validator