Is it?

If not, could anyone reccommend how to get round it?

This post has been edited by Konstantine: Mar 4 2006, 05:30 PM

Yes, the embed tag is not accepted in xhtml strict. It has been replaced by the "object" tag. If you want to know the details, look here at the w3schools site.

A full html 4.01 and xhtml reference list is available on that site. I use it all the time. Bookmark it, please.

The way to have an object so that it works in both new and old Browsers is to use BOTH the object and the embed tags. There are all kinds of samples of this code around. find a site which has an object similar to the one you which to include in your page and do a "view > source" to learn how they have done it. A great learning method, by the way.

All this is OK.
The reason is for making a more standard XHTML code and readable to everyone, I mean, people, browsers, cell phones, palms, pockets, and of course, search engines.
EMBED tag was an "invention" to "embed" ActiveX controls that were only used and displayed properly by IE or Windows based web browsers, and it was/is an opened door to viruses.
OBJECT is more useful and readable because allows to nest more OBJECT tags and even other tags like P, IMG, etc, that will be displayed if parent node cannot be.