Is Flash animation possible in iWeb?

I've tried dragging .swf files I made in Keynote into iWeb, but they just show up in a movie player and not a self playing animation. It wouldn't even show the transitions I made. Has anyone figured out if it's even possible to add Flash?
Maybe in March a Pro version of iWeb will debut along with the other new Universal Pro Apps. Here's hopin'. Other than that, iWeb is pretty dang cool.
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I'm not privy to the details and deals made between Macromedia (now Adobe) that allowed QuickTime 4 play Flash version 3 formats. The QT 5 allowed version 4 of Flash. And, 6 allowed Flash 5. Seems they were always one version number behind.
QuickTime 7 can't open Flash published higher than version 5, still. No version 6 support and nothing about Flash MX and newer versions (now up to 8, I believe).
If you want to hide the movie controller (I do it all the time in my pages) just set the html code for controller="false" in both the object and embed tags.
QuickTime also allows "progressive download" (a.k.a. Fast Start). Again, a simple html tag is all that is usually needed (autoplay="true") for this function to work.
The feature of Flash animation that allows this speed is its use of "objects". Once created, they can be morphed into different shapes or reused without increasing file size. Video formats can't do that. And neither does your Keynote export even though it is in Flash file format.
Vector graphics (scalable) are another Flash feature but QT can do some vector graphic formats (text files are an example).
Flash files usually display quickly (small file size) and don't demand much on a CPU because of what they are. Nothing to do with the file content,
Lastly, the Flash format was never intended for "video" formats. They don't do the colors (8 bit 256 colors is the normal limit of Flash) that most graphics now demand.
http://homepage.mac.com/kkirkster/xmas/index.html
One of mine from may years ago. Under 3MB's.
Flash (and other tracks added using QT Pro) used. All in a .mov "wrapper".

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Ken Binney skrev:
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>
>
> "kim" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
> news:fvqm88$evc$[email protected]..
>> The flash file is on a website I do not control. I
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>>> "kim" <[email protected]> wrote
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>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> "kim" <[email protected]>
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>>>>>
news:fvqcrg$5o3$[email protected]..
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is it possible to tell how large in
kb a flash animation is? (like
>>>>>> when you right click an image)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Kim
>>>>>> ---------------------------
>>>>>>
http://www.geekministry.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Kim
>>>> ---------------------------
>>>>
http://www.geekministry.com
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>> --
>> Kim
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> Chris Georgenes / mudbubble.com / keyframer.com / Adobe
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>
>
> Tiansen wrote:
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