HTML - Alternative To Embedding Html With <object>?

Ok, so I'm trying to revamp my website to be W3C standards-compliant.

Here's what I have currently: http://www.xboltz.net/index-new2.html

I have a sidebar in a separate HTML document, that I bring in with an object tag, in order to make it easier to add new pages since I don't have to change every other page to add a link.

I thought that by setting the object height at 100%, it would scale according to the height of what was inside the box, but it scales to the browser window instead. At 1024x768 and with all three collapsible elements open, a scrollbar appears in the object. Is there a way to make it so the whole page can be lengthened according to what's inside the box?

And another thing that's really more important; the links do not work in IE. I tried 7 and 8, and the links all open inside the object, as opposed to the full window. It does that with both target="_parent" and target="_top". The links work in Firefox just fine.

Like a lot of people I've been trying to get to grips with some basic HTML for my myspace page. Flame all you want but a lot of people have them, and they help feed our social insecurites and secret desires to be universally loved and made famous and popular and prom queen etc.

My problem is that an embeded flash object from www.last.fm (a "quilt") only partially loads)
This is what I see in both I.E. and Firefox:


Here's the code for the object:
Code:

<style type="text/css">
  
div.lastfm_quilt_black a,
div.lastfm_quilt_black div {
  height: 20px;
  margin: 0;
  overflow: hidden;
  text-decoration: none;
  padding: 0;
  background: url("http://static.last.fm/quilts/buttons/generic_images/bg_black.gif") repeat-x 0 0;
  width: 100%;
  float: right;
  display: inline;
}

div.lastfm_quilt a:hover {
  background-position: 0 0 !important;
}
  
{if $orientation=='horizontal'}

div.lastfm_quilt_horizontal {
  width: 460px;
}

div.lastfm_quilt_black a.lastfm_quilt_artists_wide,
div.lastfm_quilt_black a.lastfm_quilt_artists_wide:hover {
  background: url("http://static.last.fm/quilts/buttons/top_artists_images/wide/header_black.gif") no-repeat 0 -20px;
}

div.lastfm_quilt_black a.lastfm_quilt_albums_wide,
div.lastfm_quilt_black a.lastfm_quilt_albums_wide:hover {
  background: url("http://static.last.fm/quilts/buttons/top_albums_images/wide/header_black.gif") no-repeat 0 -20px;
}

{else}

div.lastfm_quilt_vertical {
  width: 184px;
}

div.lastfm_quilt_black a.lastfm_quilt_artists,
div.lastfm_quilt_black a.lastfm_quilt_artists:hover {
  background: url("http://static.last.fm/quilts/buttons/top_artists_images/header_black.gif") no-repeat 0 -20px;
}

div.lastfm_quilt_black a.lastfm_quilt_albums,
div.lastfm_quilt_black a.lastfm_quilt_albums:hover {
  background: url("http://static.last.fm/quilts/buttons/top_albums_images/header_black.gif") no-repeat 0 -20px;
}

{/if}

div.lastfm_quilt_black .lastfm_quilt_profile a,
div.lastfm_quilt_black .lastfm_quilt_profile a:hover {
  background: url("http://static.last.fm/quilts/buttons/generic_images/ft_black.gif") no-repeat 0 -20px;
}

div.lastfm_quilt_black .lastfm_quilt_noprofile a,
div.lastfm_quilt_black .lastfm_quilt_noprofile a:hover {
  background: url("http://static.last.fm/quilts/buttons/generic_images/npft_black.gif") no-repeat 0 -20px;
}

div.lastfm_quilt a.get_your_own {
  width: 92px;
  border-right: solid 1px #000000;
}

div.lastfm_quilt a.visit { 
  width: 91px;
  background-position: -93px -20px;
}

div.lastfm_quilt a.visit:hover { 
  background-position: -93px 0 !important;
}

</style>


<div class="lastfm_quilt lastfm_quilt_vertical lastfm_quilt_black">

        <a class="lastfm_quilt_albums" title="Top albums" href="http://www.last.fm/user/blueden8/"></a>
    
<embed 
    src="http://static.last.fm/quilts/3/quilts_main.swf" 
    flashvars="type=user&variable=blueden8&file=topalbums&bgColor=black&configMode=true" 
    quality="high" 
    bgcolor="#000000" 
    width="184" 
    height="414" 
    name="quilts_main" 
    align="middle" 
    allowScriptAccess="never" 
    type="application/x-shockwave-flash" 
    pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />


</div>

Now I know for a fact there's nothing wrong with that code by itself: I've saved it as .htm in notepad and it functions perfectly. I've also copied all code down to the <!-- NETWORK INFORMATION : BEGIN --> line to notepad and saved that. That too works perfectly. So something is going on in between that heading and where the code for comments starts (I'm guessing).
Here's a link to that code: Network Information
and here's a link to the entire page source: Entire Page
Both are .txts

I would really appreciate any help offered. I know it seems like a lot of effort to go to for a myspace profile, and even more effort for you guys to try and find the problem, but this is simply pissing me off.

i used to use dreamweaver code to embed an swf file using the
AC_RunActiveContent.js file along with the html code

<script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0','width','550','height','400','title','Video','src','test','quality','h igh','pluginspage','http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash','movie','test' ); //end AC code
</script><noscript><object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,28,0" width="550" height="400" title="Video">
<param name="movie" value="test.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="test.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="550" height="400"></embed>
</object></noscript>


i have used the swfobject method by following the steps mentioned at
http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/documentation

when i use the swfobject method and validate my html code there are no errors however with the dreamweaver code i get errors when validating my html code

my question is when i downloaded the zip file from
http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/

after unzipping this file there are 2 swfobject.js files one in the root directory after unzipping and another swfobject.js file inside a folder called src

i have used swfobject.js file from the root directory when i called this from
<script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>

and the flash file plays and also the html code validates,

is this the right way of using swfobject.js file from root directory or should i be using the one from the src folder


also just to test how the alternate content would appear if the flash player plugin is disabled or uninstalled i entered html text as alternate content using swfobject method, what i have noticed is i get the alternate content only if i disable flash player plugin however if i disable
javascript in most browsers the swf file plays

as the swfobject is calling a javascript i guess the swf file should not play or is this how it normally works

if this is the case in the alternate text, i guess i should be mentioning

"You have either javascript disabled/turned off or do not have a flash player plugin installed, download the latest flash player"




please advice.

thanks a lot

I want to embed (not hyperlink) a sub-document into a master.

The specifications for HTML 4.01 at paragraph 13.5 provide the following simple example:

<OBJECT data="embed_me.html">
Warning: embed_me.html could not be embedded.
</OBJECT>

(the Warning message displays in case the agent fails to load the embedded document)

However I have not been able to make this feature work. If you open the master file with Internet Explorer 7, you obtain the Warning message, hence IE7 is not capable to load the embedded document. At the same time the bar saying that pop-ups have been blocked shows, but even allowing the pop-up nothing changes.

I tried to add information, such as:

<OBJECT data="embed_me.html" type="text/html">
...

with no result.

Why is the tag OBJECT not working as expected? What have I done wrong?

Thanks a lot.

Hi

Beginner!
I need to embedd data from a xml-file into a html-page.

The xml is he
http://www.jornemark.nu/temperatur/last.xml
(containing temperature loggs)
If I put the following code into a html-page my plan is for the data from the xml-file to be presented in a neet little table:
Code:

<xml id="logtemp" src="http://www.jornemark.nu/temperatur/last.xml"></xml>
<table border="1" datasrc="#logtemp">
<tr>
<td><span datafld="NAME"></span></td>
<td><span datafld="VALUE"></span></td>
<td><span datafld="DATE"></span></td>
<td><span datafld="TIME"></span></td>
</tr>
</table>

I mess up somewhere along the way. Where?
I have no possibiltiy of changing contents of the xml-file.

Also, will this work/look the same in both IE and Firefox?