Re: FLASH: Overall Design Question - mixing flash and html

[Nigel Randsley-Pena]

Jeff,



'flash detection at this point is unreliable. I find it out all the time

using IE 4.5 for the Mac '


Glad you brought this up. IE is a broken product, it does not work, but

sadly it's usable and used. Plus I suspect that the company the produces

IE, just can't remember it's name right now, has a secret agenda

vis-a-vis Mac. Simply place an even more broken version of IE on Mac's

so it will give ammo for the anti-Mac crowd.

As a professional developer I try to cater for all situations Mac-IE

included, even if this represents adding hours to a project. When

attempting a universal detection script one must always know where to

stop, or else you'll find yourself in search of the perpetual motion

machine.

So the problem is where to stop and how to stop gracefully. Gracefully

stopping with MAC-IE is detecting this combo, easy, then asking the user

if Flash is installed or not, after you have informed him that his

specific platform does not allow for correct detection. If everyone did

this it would be one big step towards user awareness that a problem

exists, and once you get that kind of awareness the people responsible

for the broken products start to worry.


Nigel


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