flash plays on pcs but not on mac?

[evan]

Some background:

There are two kinds of code that are generated to embed the flash into the html page
1-the code dreamweaver generates when you use import-->media-->flash
2-the code that flash generates when it publishes an html page.

sometimes I just cut and paste the html embed code from the latter.

I don't let dreamweaver do any of my html or much of my css but still find it useful -perhaps it's also harmful to let it generate anything -could this be the problem?

I played around with swfobject and it didn't work -though I might give it another try. any ideas?

[Medyman]

It's hard to say without seeing the code. I'd give SWFObject another try. It's the only cross-browser script that I know of.

As for Dreamweaver, it has some nice functionality in code view but I wouldn't be using any of the automated or WYSIWYG features.

[evan]

I'm looking for cross browser support and cross platform support which both will do. I am not concerned with handheld devices, I would like alternative content displayed if the user has no plugin installed.

any other considerations before I choose one method over the other -even after reading the docs. Any insight?

[Medyman]

Again, SWFObject 2.0 is really the only viable option available. If you're using Flash CS4, the code that it outputs is SWFObject 2.0, so if that's one of your two options, go with that.

[evan]

useing swf object and using the embed tags provided on the swfobject generator site did the trick. thanks much.