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| Subject: | Re: FLASH: plug-in DETECTION |
| From: | Kristopher Schultz |
| Date: | Wed, 8 Nov 2000 02:54:36 GMT |
This is a good approach if you KNOW that the user will have SOME version of
the Flash plug-in installed and you just need to detect whether it is the
right version or not.
BUT, the reason I don't use this approach is that when there is NO version
of the Flash plug-in installed some browsers pop up a very user-un-friendly
dialog as soon as you hit a page with Flash content saying something to the
effect of "This page contains content of MIME type 'animation/x-flash'.
Would you like to search for an appropriate plug-in? NO YES"
kristopher schultz - mills james productions
programming : compression : management
@ www.millsjames.com - columbus, ohio
> From: "Gregg Caines" <gc
neometrixsystems [dot] com>> Organization: Neometrix Systems Inc.
> Reply-To: flasher
chinwag [dot] com> Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 14:38:33 -0500
> To: <flasher
chinwag [dot] com>> Subject: Re: FLASH: plug-in DETECTION
>
> The best method IMHO is the macromedia 'self-detecting' scheme.
> http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/scriptfree_detection.ht
> m
> There's no JavaScript involved so it works on those versions of IE
> on the Mac that don't have the otherwise necessary plug-in array,
> and it works on browsers without JavaScript enabled.
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Gregg Caines
> n e o m e t r i x systems inc.
> http://www.neometrixsystems.com
> gcaines
neometrixsystems [dot] com>
>> Hi, I'm new to this list.
>> I've just developed a movie in flash5 format.
>> Can somebody explain me how can I solve the following - related - problem
>> (or indicate where to find examples/literature about it)?
>>
>> - detection of flash player and version under MAC (and then download the
>> right player if needed)
>> - detection of the version of the player and then download of the right
>> version of the player
>>
>> Is there some code to write into flash? COuld this code be downloaded
>> somewhere?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Alberto
>
>
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