Flash ALT equivalent?

[strider72]

Hi,

I'm a non-Flash user who is trying to improve useability on a site that uses Flash far too heavily. Specifically, if the viewer can not see Flash, the site contains virtually no information whatsoever. Not Good.

I need to know if there is a way to set alternate code for viewers who can't see Flash. Right now when I turn off plugins in my browser, most of the pages pull up with a menu bar and nothing else, because the entire content other than the menu is Flash. I would like them to see text, or images, or whatnot instead.

Thanks in advance,

Steve

[Jesse]

http://moock.org/webdesign/flash/detection/moockfpi/
The FPI lets you detect all sorts of info about the user's Flash plugin and insert an image, or a SWF at your discretion.

[mcdanyel]

There is also a flash detector on macromedia's site that will let you determine if the viewer has the flash plugin or not and if they do not it will kick you to an alternate site that can be completely HTML or whatever the heck you want to.

It works fine.

http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/download/deployment_kit/

Hope this helps.

[mad_A]

You can also make a frameset with flash in one frame and html in the other. Depending on what the user has change the value of one or other to 0.
This works well, but can be slow to load.