aka FLV (Flash Video), Adobe’s
(originally developed by Macromedia) client-side competitor to Java that runs in a browser like Applets. The
current version is 11.0.1.152 Last revised/verified: 2011-10-03. Its download is about 1.2 MB, compared with
3 MB for Shockwave, and 14 MB for the Java run
time. It was initially designed to do rapid animations with very small downloads. Now it has been extended to
handle data entry and database lookup functions. Macromedia decided to use fluffy XML as their transport protocol to the server. The downloaded files typically have the extension
*.swt or *.swf. Test your Flash installation.
Adobe has effectively abandoned it, moving to HTML5 instead.
The HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) to invoke Flash is an <object tag, perhaps augmented with a
deprecated <embed tag to handle the older browsers.
Markup
Adobe recommends hideous incomprehensible markup to invoke Flash movies. However, I have found you can get away
with a simple markup, and it works on all modern browsers, even Internet Explorer.
Simplified Markup
Invoking a YouTube Video
Hideous Nested Embed markup
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