Other opinions about this Flash embedding article

[Keith Purtell]

I'm very curious as to what other web developers think about this article regarding embedding Flash, which includes some discussion of swfobject. (There is also a reference at the end to an improved method developed in conjunction with the man to created swfobject, but the link appears broken.)

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashembedcagematch/

- Keith

[Kyle Simpson]

1) That article is quite out of date, from Feb 2007.

 

2) The "improved method" talked about at the end is actually what we currently have today with SWFObject. A couple of years ago, SWFObject and UFO combined forces, and SWFObject 2.x is the result. We are currently on 2.2.

 

 

We've talked about doing a bug-patch 2.3 release, but at present the need for the release (ie, problems without workarounds) hasn't justified the work to do so, so we're in a slowed down maintenance phase for the time being.

 

As far as I (and I believe the other co-maintainers of the project) am concerned, SWFObject 2.2 still represents the most robust, standards-compliant, and flexible solution for SWF embedding.

 

We provide the markup-generator to assist web authors in creating the best markup/code for their site scenario. We also have several popular SWF-centric projects that we've coordinated compatibility with, including SWFFit and others. We think this represents a solid and stable ecosystem for SWF-in-HTML publishing use-cases.

 

--Kyle

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