Re: FLASH: Download of Macromedia viewer

[Marc Hoffman]

At 01:46 PM 3/24/99 -0800, you wrote:

>I am creating a cd that will lauch a webpage that uses some (Not all) flash

>and would like to be able to have the page point to a plugin on the CD if

>the person doesn't have the plugin installed on there browser. Anyone know

>how I would be able to do this?


Most comprehensive way to test for the plug-in is simply to put a small

Flash animation on the HTML page, and below it add this:


If you can't see the animation above, <a href=pluginName.exe>click here</a>

and, when prompted, run the plug-in.


You could do a javaScript detect and have JS write html content, but you'd

be limiting yourself to JS-enable browsers and even then JS won't detect

the plug-in with all browser types.



Marc Hoffman

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