Re: REPOST: FLASH: Flash 4 plugin detection (for the gazillionth time).

[John Dowdell]

At 9:50 AM 8/7/0, Gregg Caines wrote:

> Okay I know everyone's sick to death of plug-in detection...


... because no matter how many times it's typed out, it will still occur in

the list three times over the next week.... ;-)



> Mac IE: GetURL does not work


It generally does work. You may be able to find a particular case where the

browser acts differently... connecting via SSL encryption to LoadVariables

via a redirected domain into a dynamically loaded level or something like

that, for instance.


Just on a hunch, you might be trying to use a "javascript:" protocol

pseudo-URL there. Not all browsers support this from objects... some do,

some don't. Some of the browsers offer documented and supported methods for

script/object intercommunication, and these are available to the Macromedia

Flash Player through the FSCommand mechanism.



> Plug-ins cannot be detected via clientside scripting      (T)    (F)


IE5/Mac was the first to offer a valid navigator.plugins array, and so will

reveal its installed Netscape Plugins to JScript. (It still doesn't offer

JavaScript/plugin *communication*, though... you can tell whether the Flash

Player is there, but you can't tell it what to do, can't catch events from

it.)



jd








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