One of these "tiny" details is embedding the SWF. We use the <EMBED> tag in Netscape Navigator, and the <OBJECT> tag in IE. In IE the size is minimal, 1x1. Netscape Navigator 4.7 requires a minimum size of 1x2. We hide the SWF by coloring it with the same background color of the page. The function Flash_embedSWF() does the embedding. It takes two arguments: the SWF's URL and the object color. Here is the code:

function Flash_embedSWF(srcURL, swfbgColor) {
  if (!Flash_checkForMinPlayer()) return;

  var defaultColor = (document.bgColor != null) ? document.bgColor : "#ffffff";
  var bgcolor = (swfbgColor != null) ? swfbgColor : defaultColor;

  document.writeln(
   '<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"' +
   'codebase="http://active.macromedia.com/flash2/cabs/swflash.cab#version=4,0,0,0"' +
   'ID="sonify" WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1>' +
   '<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="' + srcURL + '">' +
   '<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=low>' +
   '<PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent>'+
   '<PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=' + bgcolor + '>' +
     '<EMBED swLiveConnect="true" NAME="sonify"' +
      'src="' + srcURL + '"' +
      'quality=low' +
      'wmode=transparent' +
      'bgcolor=' + bgcolor +
      'WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=2' +
      'TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"'+
      'PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">' +
     '</EMBED>' +
   '</OBJECT>'
   );
}

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