Flash Satay: Embedding Flash While Supporting Standards
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/flashsatay/

Mclellan, Drew
List Apart, A
2002

Abstract:

I’ve worked with Flash for several years and have always been slightly dissatisfied with the markup needed to embed a movie in web pages. When I recently published a site in XHTML, my dissatisfaction with the markup grew as I realized that it simply wasn’t valid in this context and was bloating my pages to unacceptable levels. A leaner, standards-compliant method of embedding Flash movies was called for.