Validate Flash elements
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April 6th, 2008
Datis Design Weblog
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As I said before, Validating a web site is an important step in web designing. But when we want to put Flash contents in our web site, validation will be failed. There are some ways to prevent this error, the method I suggest is to use UFO object.
First download UFO from this link.
Next step is to create a new (X)HTML document. Create a placeholder and give it an unique ID. Look at this code :
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>UFO Test Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="ufo">
<p>Place Flash Content Here</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>In next step we should link the UFO script to our page, please note that the address of the UFO script is right :
<script src="ufo.js" type="text/javascript"></script>Then we should create an object for each of our Flash contents, look at this code :
<script type="text/javascript">
var FO = { movie:"swf/myMovie.swf", width:"300", height:"120",
majorversion:"6", build:"40" };
</script> In next step we should call UFO for each of Flash objects, we use the unique ID that we create in first step in our (X)HTML document :
UFO.create(FO, "ufo");We put this code at the end of our script code.
Final Code :
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>UFO Test Document</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="ufo.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var FO = { movie:"swf/myMovie.swf", width:"300", height:"120",
majorversion:"6", build:"40" };
UFO.create(FO, "ufo");
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="ufo">
<p>Place Flash Content Here</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>Usually you need only these parameters that I used in this code. movie parameter get the address of your swf file, width and height parameters get the dimension of your document, majorversion and build parameters get the version of your swf file. There are other optional parameters which you can see in the UFO website. Please note that the programmers of this script wont continue this project, maybe you like to try other scripts, SWFObject is another method for placing Flash files in your document.
