The dark art of embedding Flash.. help!

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I've been supplied a flash splash page on the site I'm building (I know!), and I'm not entirely sure if I've embedded it correctly. It was never my intention of using flash (because I havent really used it before!). I just want to make sure it's going to appear properly on all/most browsers, and importantly show alternate text if they go and look at it on their iphones!

The page is here: link removed

I seem to be getting a flicker of my alternative text before the flash appears. That shouldn't be happening should it? :confused:

Relevant code is here:
Code:
<body>
<!--[if !IE]> -->
  <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="gobo_splash.swf" width="980" height="520">
<!-- <![endif]-->

<!--[if IE]>
  <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" 
  codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" 
  width="100%" height="100%">
    <param name="movie" value="gobo_splash.swf" />
<!-->
  <param name="loop" value="false" />
  <param name="menu" value="false" />
  </object>
  
	<!--start alternative text-->

		<p><a href="http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/" title="Get Flash">You need to install Flash!</a><br/><br/>
		<a href="g2/index.html" title="Click here to enter g2">Click here to enter the g2 site</a>, or <a href="crew/index.html" title="Click here to enter Gobo Crew">click here to enter the Gobo Crew site</a>
		</p>
	<!--end alternative text-->
		
<!-- <![endif]-->
</body>

I'm looking into SWFObject but it looks really complicated! Any help pretty please? :)
 
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I might look into it if I can finish all the other stuff they want! Do you see the flicker of text before the flash loads?
 
No flicker here either FF3.6.13. Although I have 2 things to mention.

1) Use SWFObject. Really. It's a one liner.

2) Spaces in URLs make baby Jesus cry :)
 
Thanks guys that's really useful.
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I think I'll have to give SWFObject a whirl.
2) Spaces in URLs make baby Jesus cry :)
Ha, yes indeed. It's their host and they kindly made that folder for me to drop the new stuff into. It made me cry too :p
 
Draeger that vid was perfect. Up and running in about 10mins.
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Now to sort out my (non)streaming quicktimes :(
 
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