The embed tag is probably off the list because not of flash movies, but of other embeddable objects.
Flash could be discouraged on a wiki for a number of reasons: -Format not open (proprietary) -Can be a major bandwidth hog -Can do things on a web page that almost everybody (except the guy that but it there) would find at least distracting and at most offensive or illegal. -Requires a plugin to use
There are probably a few ways to put it in a wiki: -Add swf as an uploadable file type and include it as a [[Media:foo.swf]] link (an Image link probably will not work) -Rewrite the parser to allow the <embed> tag -Enable the <html> tag and use an <embed>
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 00:10:34 -0600, Taneem A T thezeropoint@gmail.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
My thanks for the responses to my previous enquiry, they have been very helpful.
I have another q: how can I embed a flash movie into a wiki page, if at all?
I thought that I could perhaps do this by adding <embed> to the list of permissable HTML tags. The MediaWiki handbook suggests that I might be able to do this in the OutputPage.php file. The code the handbook refers to however does not appear in my own installation's copy, so I assume changes were made in the latest version that have not been reflected yet in the Handbook.
So, is there an easy way to include flash movies in a wiki? If not, why not? Flash movie files are hardly a security threat.
Thanks again,
-- Taneem Talukdar http://www.dheo.com/
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