Monthly Archive for August, 2006

Flash as a background and the object tag drama

The Mission

Use Flash as a background image.

The Problems

There are a multitude of problems with embedding Flash into valid mark-up. Basically:

  • You can’t use the tag now days and has been dropped in favor of the tag. You actually can use the embed tag but its not future compatible and your page won’t validate.
  • This presents problems because IE and Netscape/Firefox based browsers handle the object tag differently. If you manage to get a single object tag to load a flash movie in both browsers then IE seems to not stream the movie anymore.

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Fatoush rocks!

There is a great recipe for Fatoush over at the Mobius strip, one of my favourite blogs. She forgot to add that when you look for parsley, you want the bunches with the smaller leaves. A fact that she pointed out one day and I have never forgotten. Something that only the intimacy of experience can make you remember…

Fun dumby text for all the kids

Ten years ago a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem and no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-team.

Some creative dumby text for you web developers out there thanks to malevole.

Christians

There have been 68712966 versions of the ‘Charles Darwin‘ entry on Wikipedia. You might think the Christians have a bit of a chink in their arguments armour. I mean, you don’t see the Buddhist suppressing information, even if they think its a lie.