[PLUG] href in flash??

[Keith Lofstrom]

Thanks again for the great answers to the last question.
Unfortunately, it encouraged me to ask another.   :-)

I am adding a small improvement to wydiwys - actually, to the
html template file (I hope).  

I want "mouse left click" to advance to the next image. 

The obvious reason is for ease of use, the subtle reason is
to provide an href that search engine spiders can use to
find all the images in a slide set.  

So - I have that working for my image slides, which are
imbedded in an:

   <a href="nextslide.html"><img src="thisslide.png" ></a>

... kind of wrapper.  Standard stuff. 
However, I get no joy if I try:
 
   <a href="nextslide.html"> <object data="thisslide.swf"
   ... other stuff > ... params ... </object> </a>

or

   <object href="nextslide.html" data="thisslide.swf"...

Neither of these respond to a click.

I can probably intercept the left mouseclick in javascript, but
the search engine spiders probably aren't smart enough to figure
that out.  Perhaps I combine that with the first nonfunctional
aref method above, which will probably fool a spider.

Given the way I am implementing things now, the javascript
approach is a little ugly.  Some pages (not image or flash
slides) have normal clickable links in them, and I would have
to turn off the code that intercepts the left mouseclick.

Ideas?  Lateral thinking?

Keith

(p.s. - if I am putting my slide shows up for public consumption,
I want the images searchable.  I've found vendors of odd hardware
using Google Image Search, for example.  The static image slides
in the presentations are linearly linked with arefs, but the chain
is broken by the swf slides. )

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