284727 - using FlasVars in embed tags fails to validate in w3c

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 161891

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[ale.pas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; it-IT; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; it-IT; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

FlashVars attribute in embed tag is needed to pass parameters to the movie but
this breaks w3c validation.

There is not another way to pass FlashVars, since the object tag is ignored by
firefox.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to www.trekking.it
2. Try to validate the page in w3c validator

Actual Results:  
Among other minor issues (like &->&) you see "
there is no attribute "FLASHVARS" <embed FlashVars="imagepath=images/homepage...


Expected Results:  
Why don't you support w3c standard object tag for flash embedding?

Comment 1

[Ian Graham]

Mozilla does support flash embedding via OBJECT -- have you looked at the
example at:

http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/testcases/printing/misc/embed_obj_tag.html

There are, however, sone known object element problems associated with flash --
basically to do with how PARAM elements aren't properly handled by the plugin.
See bug 161891 for details.

I suspect that this report is a dup of bug 161891 -- note comment 24 of bug
161891, which points out that it is Macromedia's fault that flash doesn't work
with object elements.

Comment 2

[ale.pas]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 161891 ***