i put up a slideshow of the silver jewelry club photos i’ve saved. after i added the code given to me directly from slide.com, my site no longer validates with XHTML 1.0 strict rules. So I researched on valid flash embed code and found this nifty javascript trick for embedding flash.

The code given to me from the slide.com:

<embed src="http://widget.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf" 
	quality="high" 
	scale="noscale" 
	salign="l" 
	flashvars="site=widget.slide.com&channel=181375" 
	wmode="transparent" 
	bgcolor="#f5f5f5" 
	width="205" 
	height="97"
	name="flashticker" 
	align="middle" 
	type="application/x-shockwave-flash" 
	pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"/>

The final code I put up that works & validates:

<div id="slideshow">If you don't see the slideshow, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/68167759@N00/">click here.</a>.</div>
<script type="text/javascript"> 
// <![CDATA[ 
	var fo = new FlashObject("http://widget.slide.com/widgets/slideticker.swf?site=widget.slide.com&amp;channel=181375", "flashticker", "205", "97", "6", "#ffffff"); 
	fo.addVariable("wmode", "transparent"); 
	fo.addVariable("quality", "high"); 
	fo.addVariable("scale", "noscale"); 
	fo.addVariable("salign", "l"); 
	fo.addVariable("align", "middle"); 
	fo.write("slideshow"); 
// ]]>
</script>

given that I’ve properly uploaded flashobject.js and included in the header of my HTML with:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/flashobject.js"></script>