Hard-Pressed

For testing, I am using http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmdUEdMh-H0.

Version #1 (Includes “param” Elements)

This version currently excludes descriptive text inside the “object” element to avoid WordPress XHTML injection that triggers a validator warning.

This version works in Internet Explorer, but IE won’t stream the initial SWF—in this case, the video player itself. It will, however, stream assets loaded after the initial SWF.

Version #2 (Solo “object” Element)

This version does not allow full-screen mode. It also doesn’t work in Internet Explorer.

Note that my design currently uses HTML 4.01 Strict while WordPress tends to inject sloppy XHTML all over the place without so much as an HTML option. I’ll probably grudgingly convert to XHTML soon even though I’ll probably end up changing everything to HTML 5 later.