I don't know what they do. You haven't shown the entire element, so I don't know if you're still trying to use "embed', or if you've switched over to "object".
This page documents problems and and workarounds for XHTML and Flash.
I switched over to Object, just as you recommended & has no "embed" in it, anymore. I also got rid of "ID" tags, on which I was having error. Alongside, I have "data" instead of "src".
The entire code can be seen on:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>All Inclusive Web Design</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"/>
<script type="text/javascript">AC_FL_RunContent = 0;</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="AC_RunActiveContent.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header">
Text-size:
<a href="">normal</a> |
<a href="">large</a> |
<a href="">x-large</a>
<?php echo date("l, d F Y");?>
<br/>
</div>
<div id="banner">
<!--url's used in the movie-->
<a href="contact.php"></a>
<a href="about.php"></a>
<a href="owner.php"></a>
<a href="template.php"></a>
<a href="services.php"></a>
<!--text used in the movie-->
<!-- saved from url=(0013)about:internet -->
<script type="text/javascript">
if (AC_FL_RunContent == 0) {
alert("This page requires AC_RunActiveContent.js. In Flash, run \"Apply Active Content Update\" in the Commands menu to copy AC_RunActiveContent.js to the HTML output folder.");
} else {
AC_FL_RunContent(
'codebase', 'http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0',
'width', '700',
'height', '150',
'src', 'banner',
'quality', 'best',
'pluginspage', 'http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer',
'align', 'middle',
'play', 'true',
'loop', 'true',
'scale', 'showall',
'wmode', 'window',
'devicefont', 'false',
'id', 'banner',
'name', 'banner',
'menu', 'true',
'allowScriptAccess','sameDomain',
'movie', 'banner',
'salign', ''
); //end AC code
}
</script>
<noscript>
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="700" height="150" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="banner.swf" /><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#009900" /> <object data="banner.swf" width="700" height="150" name="banner" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>
</noscript>
</div>