old plugin shows blank screen and no warning.

[Christian Cook]

I have noticed that the old plugin simply shows a blank screen when

encountering new Flash 3 content. And this is not a one off issue as we

have had a flood of calls to ISL about our site disappearing and this

has been fixed in all cases by updating the plugin. But without any

warnings on screen, loads of users will miss all the lovely new Flash 3

stuff.


MM, can you not put some auto checking into the plugin so that it checks

and warns if it needs updating. Shocked websites just vanishing without

warning is not the best of advertisments for such a brilliant

technology.


Ah, detection scripts you say.


Well, I checked out the table of which OS/browser combinations support

detection scripts and it wasn't exactly all encompassing. I used

dreamweaver to detect flash 2.0 and then changed the script to read

"Shockwave Flash 3.0" but now it just ends everyone to the no shockwave

warning page.


the site and source are all at http://www.isluk.com 


anyone know a reliable script for checking for shockwave Flash 3.0


I am not having a moan here. I think that Shockwave is still the best

solution in web design and I applaud the efforts of MM in continually

pushing it forward. I don't want to turn this into a slag down MM thread

or a stop picking on MM thread. It's neither, I just want some advice on

how other people have tackeld this.


Cheers. hopefully I've covered my back there... But I'll probably get

the odd flame anyway  ;)


Christian Cook

Web Designer, ISL

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