I won't claim to know exactly why it won't work, and I don't know how you could make it work in that way.
However; a flash .swf file is not an image file. To put a flash object on a page, you have to have to 'embed' it on a page. Using an actual 'embed' tag work in most cases sometimes, but the apparent 'correct' way is to use 'object' tags.
The best way is to use embed tags inside object elements, because 'object' does some compatibiity delegation. (so if object fails, embed should work)
Linking a flash file from an image tag (equivelent to putting it as a background image in CSS) will not work; in the same way as linking an html file to an 'image' tag's src won't work. The browser expects the response to looking for that source image to return an image type result, if it doesn't find one, it treats it as it would if nothing was at that location. (Note: If the flash file identified itself as an image type, it wouldn't be processed as a flash movie,)
If you know how to embed flash movies on a page, and just want objects to appear on top of it (as if it was a background), you might have some sucess with absolutely positioned elements 'on top' of the movie. That's quite a detailed subject in itself, but as a snippet:
<html>
<body style="margin:0;padding:0">
<embed src="your_flash.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"/>
<div style="color:white;position:absolute;left:0;top:0;">
This should be on top …
** I am not sure if this is the correct area for this post-- please move to correct forum if necessary-- thanks.
I am redeveloping the website for the company I work for. It is going along quite well but I have a question in regards to Flash; I have never worked with Flash in any way before. I simply wished to add a simple Flash element to the already-made, JPEG header; I did this via a software program which produced a .swf file when saved. This seemed to work fine (I opened the file in IE7 to view it-- it worked.)
I would like to learn and understand how to use this now in the site. I added it into the css sheet in place of the original JPEG header-- I had the feeling it would not un and it didn't.
Correct-- not from cold weather, but other people. Other people == germs. I live with my girlfriend. Both of us rarely (literally) leave the house. I work from home. She does not work. We are quite blessed with a situation that fits our personalities and lifestyles perfectly. We only leave to: shop for groceries (most of the time everything is delivered once a month from the store, though), go to church, when she visits her family up the street, to take the dogs a walk, to goto the Doctor.
Another way to prevent cold and flu naturally: rarely ever leave the house in the Winter and be around strangers carrying stranger-virus colonies within\on them. Works for me wonderfully. :cheesy:;)
