Dropping support for IE6, Is swfObject still relevant?

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Published on 2010-03-11T17:11:56Z Indexed on 2010/03/12 3:47 UTC
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We have recently dropped support for IE6 at my job. The other developers have have opted for a generic object embed method:

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="example.swf" width="800" height="600" > 
      <param name="movie" value="example.swf"> 
      <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always">
</object>

This seems to work in all modern browsers but it really rubs me the wrong way. I'm sure this is wrong in several ways and is clearly a big step back in sophistication. So my question is in 2 parts, what is wrong with the above method? Is swfObject still best practice and what issues does it solve (besides IE6 click-activate)? Citations less then a year old would also be helpful.

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