I have this code
< a href=\"flash.swf\" class=\"bump\">flash
and it display
Some browsers can't open a Flash file without Flash container (embed). The embed code in your post is fine, put it on a PHP page and replace:
src="flash.swf"
with
Then you can put as link: nameofphpscript.php?flashurl=flash.swf
nameofphpscript.php?flashurl=flash.swf