I’ve been looking at the issues surrounding getting Flash video on web sites recently.

SWFObject is a pretty good way to go about it, built from a standards point of view, with accessibility in mind, the basics are pretty easy to use.

The only thing that didn’t seem terribly clear, was that it doesn’t do anything automatically about people who do not have Flash installed at all. This is on purpose it seems, and I can see a certain amount of sense in that, it jsut wasn’t something that seemed as clear as it might’ve been.

One compromise I’ve come up with is to have a link in the text that’s displayed if Flash or JS isn’t setup that skips the detection for Opera and Firefox, as they will attempt to install the plugin anyway, and a link to Adobe for IE to get it installed. Not tested Safari yet to know how that works.

There’s theres the basis of the information needed about passing the value of an flv file into the player (so you have your flash video player, and just tell it which video to play) at quip.net.

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