Re: FLASH: shockwave detection on mac with ie

[Wolf Luecker]

>I have been having poblems with ie 4.5 on the mac, when an auto detect for

>the shockwave plugin in used the pugin in never detected. even when i goto

>the macromedia home page i get sent to the html version. Is this a common

>thing? i even downloaded the latest browser from the microsoft site. Is

>there and way to use a JS detection on mac & ie? the same script works fine

>with netscape plus ie and netscape on windows.

>Any ideas?

>

>JamieD


This is a common problem. You can't detect the plugins installed on 

IE/Mac. There are quite a few 'little' issues with that browser, such 

as the missing support for POST and GET commands in Flash 4 (unless 

that's been fixed in the recebt plugin releases).


Wolf.


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