Embedding Flash into a website can be pain - especially if you need an alternative image when Flash is being blocked or non-existing. The OpenSource project swfObject offers a clean way for almost every browser to insert Flash objects - with an alternative in case Flash is not installed.

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<swfobject %SWF%[?%OPTIONS%]>
%ALTERNATE_CONTENT%
</swfobject> 

^Variable^Content^

Please see the following page for information on the swfObject plugin.

<swfobject :wiki:plugins:winkdemo.swf?width=640&height=480>
Demo cannot display.
</swfobject>

<swfobject :wiki:plugins:winkdemo.swf?width=640&height=480> Demo cannot display. </swfobject>

To display a Flash (.flv) file using the swfobject plugin, you need the player.swf file from JW FLV Player which is an swf file that can display flv files. You need to upload the player.swf to your Wiki, and then you can do something like:

<swfobject :wiki:plugins:player.swf?width=1024&height=768&file=https://wiki.cse.yorku.ca/dept/tdb/_media/wiki:plugins:your-flash.flv>
additional content
</swfobject>

• Wikipedia on SWF
• Wikipedia on Flash
• Wikipedia on SWFObject