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karlzoe2

12-05-2002, 11:16 PM

i want my page to detect whether a user has flash and automatically download it for them....what is the script...perhaps html for doing that

not at that stage yet but the early bird caught ze worm

jubei

12-05-2002, 11:42 PM

We have a page with a metarefresh set to 10 seconds, and a flash file that has a getUrl command.

Basically, if they have flash, the flash files sends them to the main flash page. If they don't, the metarefresh sends tham to a page telling them to download it (the eventual goal is to send them to the html version of the page)

Specific code?

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE> yoursite </TITLE>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="10; URL=the-page-with-the-flash-download.htm">
</HEAD>
<body>
<embed src="your-redirecting-flash.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#000000 width=10 height=10 type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed> </BODY>
</HTML>

karlzoe2

12-05-2002, 11:48 PM

subquark

12-06-2002, 10:23 AM

this is a very good HTML strategy from Colin Moock and fairly easy to set-up and highly recommended . . .

Moock's Flash Player Inspector (http://www.moock.org/webdesign/flash/detection/moockfpi/)