Flash animation and alternate image?

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  damianhart · Member · Jul 17, 2012 at 12:33 am

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  When putting a Flash animation on a regular HTML page, there is an option in the Flash-generated HTML code to link to an alternate image/text in case the user’s browser cannot display the Flash movie.

  I’m 100% new to WordPress, and found the [giga] tag (something like that) for linking Flash content to a post. Is there a way–on WordPress–to do the alternate image for folks that don’t have Flash player…or are on an i-Toy?

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  justpi · Member · Jul 17, 2012 at 1:04 am

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  I’m not seeing such an option here:
  http://helpx.adobe.com/flash/kb/flash-object-embed-tag-attributes.html
  Could you paste an example please (between backticks)?

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  damianhart · Member · Jul 17, 2012 at 1:32 am

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  Well, it is (at least for me) somewhat difficult to describe. But when you create a Flash animation, there’s a section in its pre-generated HTML code that basically says, “If the viewer doesn’t have the Flash Player installed, show this instead.” It looks like this (many lines down in the HTML code):

  <!– The browser displays the following alternative content for users with Flash Player 6.0 and older. –>
  <div>
  <img src=”http://someothersite/someimage.jpg” width=”400″ height=”200″> </div>

  So I’m wondering if there’s something similar here in WordPress where I can display alternate images / content for non-Flash users.

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  justpi · Member · Jul 17, 2012 at 4:50 am

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  The phrase inside the brackets isn’t a functioning element, it’s just a comment (an explanation for humans): it’s the lines before this that do the job.
  Anyway, the answer to your question is no: this part of the code cannot be part of the gigya shortcode; it would have to be added to the HTML of the blog, but on wordpress.com you don’t have access to that.