# How to make a Flash 8 website backwards compatible

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-make-a-flash-8-website-backwards-compatible/199866>\
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**Created:** [September 6, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-make-a-flash-8-website-backwards-compatible/199866 "2006-09-06T21:08:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 9:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-make-a-flash-8-website-backwards-compatible/199866/1 "2006-09-06T21:08:37Z")

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Hi,

I’ve designed a website in Flash 8 and I need to embed it as an swf or flash object so that it runs with Flash Player 6 and up. Changing the Flash version parameter in the SWFObject function call doesn’t work:

var so = new SWFObject(“movie.swf”, “mymovie”, “200”, “100”, “6”, “#336699”);

with this call, the flashcontent value is displayed (prompts user to download latest version of Flash plug-in).

Any ideas on how to do this?