Web Multimedia and Interactivity - Web Development and Design Foundations with XHTML

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The Flash button on the page will animate when the mouse is placed on it and will link

to the Adobe Web site when clicked (if you are connected to the Internet while viewing

this page).

Let's get started. Create a folder called testflash on your disk. Copy the flashbutton.swf

file from the student files Chapter11 folder and save it in your testflash folder.

Next, launch Notepad and create the page that will display this Flash button. The

XHTML code follows:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<head>

<title>Hands-On Practice 11.4</title>

</head>

<body>

<h1>Flash Sample</h1>

height="34" data="flashbutton.swf" title="Button links to the Adobe

Web site" >

<p>This is a Flash button that links to the

<a href="http://www.adobe.com">Adobe Web site</a>

</p>

</object>

</body>

</html>

Save your file in the testflash folder as flash.html and test it in a browser. Compare your

work to the sample in the student files (Chapter11/flash.html).

FAQ

What will happen if the browser my Web page visitor uses does not

support Flash?

If you used the code in this section to display Flash media on a Web page and your visitor's

browser does not support Flash, the browser typically will display a message about needing a

missing plug-in. The XHTML code in this section passes W3C XHTML validation and is the

minimum code needed to display Flash media on a Web page. If you'd like more features, such

as being able to offer an express install of the latest Flash player to your visitors, explore

SWFObject at http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/documentation, which uses JavaScript

to embed Flash content and is W3C XHTML standards compliant.

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