Advertising Module Compliancy - Flash

Involved Joined: Apr 06, 2008 Posts: 484

I noticed when using flash in the advertising module it breaks the compliancy so I updated the code in mainfile.

In mainfile on line 1898 change it to;

Code:




$ads = '<center>


                <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="'.$imageurl.'" name="'.$bid.'" width="'.$ad_width.'" height="'.$ad_height.'">


            <param name="movie" value="'.$imageurl.'" />


            <img src="noflash.gif" width="200" height="100" alt="" />


            <param name="quality" value="high" />


            <param name="loop" value="true" />


            <param name="menu" value="false" />


            </object>


                </center>';

from what I have read, if your browser has trouble with the mimetype "application/x-shockwave-flash" you can add and image tag as it will look at the very next one.This can obviously be removed.Anyone see any issue's with this?

It seems to work in FF 3 and IE 7.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Thanks Testy. I've submitted a Mantis issue on this. Just for clarification, here is exactly how our code reads. Using our exact code, please mark up your proposed changes.

Code:

            $ads = '<center>


                <OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"


                codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"


                WIDTH="'.$ad_width.'" HEIGHT="'.$ad_height.'" id="'.$bid.'">


                <PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="'.$imageurl.'">


                <PARAM NAME="quality" VALUE="high">


                <EMBED src="'.$imageurl.'" quality="high" WIDTH="'.$ad_width.'" HEIGHT="'.$ad_height.'"


                NAME="'.$bid.'" ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"


                PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">


                </EMBED>


                </OBJECT>


                </center>';

Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 4:15 pm

yer no problem

this is the OEM code

Code:




$ads = '<center>


                <OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"


                codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"


                WIDTH="'.$ad_width.'" HEIGHT="'.$ad_height.'" id="'.$bid.'">


                <PARAM NAME="movie" VALUE="'.$imageurl.'">


                <PARAM NAME="quality" VALUE="high">


                <EMBED src="'.$imageurl.'" quality="high" WIDTH="'.$ad_width.'" HEIGHT="'.$ad_height.'"


                NAME="'.$bid.'" ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"


                PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">


                </EMBED>


                </OBJECT>


                </center>';

And here is the replacement code

Code:




$ads = '<center>


                <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="'.$imageurl.'" name="'.$bid.'" width="'.$ad_width.'" height="'.$ad_height.'">


               <param name="movie" value="'.$imageurl.'" />


               <img src="noflash.gif" width="200" height="100" alt="" />


               <param name="quality" value="high" />


               <param name="loop" value="true" />


               <param name="menu" value="false" />


               </object>


                </center>';

Using the above code....apparently if your browser see's the following

Code:




type="application/x-shockwave-flash"

and cant understand it or does not support it, It looks at the very next tag to see if it can go on.Thats why you put an image tag so you can display some type of image that says "flash is not supported".This would need discussion I suppose as to whether it is usefull or not, but in my tests the above code worked perfectly in IE7, FF3.03 and Chrome.

Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:55 pm

after checking out dreamweavers new features....I see it now produces xhtml compliant flash.I have included a page that dreamweaver has generated as it maybe also helpfull with the above problem.Im not sure how it all works so I will post it here for anyone that whats to work on it

Code:




<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">


<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">


<head>


<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />


<title>Untitled Document</title>


<script src="Scripts/swfobject_modified.js" type="text/javascript"></script>


</head>





<body>


<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="400" height="250" id="FlashID" title="charts">


  <param name="movie" value="flash_file.swf" />


  <param name="quality" value="high" />


  <param name="wmode" value="opaque" />


  <param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0" />


  <!-- This param tag prompts users with Flash Player 6.0 r65 and higher to download the latest version of Flash Player. Delete it if you don’t want users to see the prompt. -->


  <param name="expressinstall" value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf" />


  <!-- Next object tag is for non-IE browsers. So hide it from IE using IECC. -->


  <!--[if !IE]>-->


  <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="flash_file.swf" width="400" height="250">


    <!--<![endif]-->


    <param name="quality" value="high" />


    <param name="wmode" value="opaque" />


    <param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0" />


    <param name="expressinstall" value="Scripts/expressInstall.swf" />


    <!-- The browser displays the following alternative content for users with Flash Player 6.0 and older. -->


    <div>


      <h4>Content on this page requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player.</h4>


      <p><a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" width="112" height="33" /></a></p>


    </div>


    <!--[if !IE]>-->


  </object>


  <!--<![endif]-->


</object>


<script type="text/javascript">


<!--


swfobject.registerObject("FlashID");


//-->


</script>


</body>


</html>

and here is the 2 files that dreamweaver automatically inserts;
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