Flash Player Detection

[spoonyg]

I have always made my flash detection in a html file. I was checking out another developer's fla and he had the flash detection in the fla using getVersion. I am wondering how this would work... if the person doesn't have the flash player to begin with how would the swf play in order to do the detection? Is this method really only for detecting the most recent player? (in the case of the user having the flash 5 player, but they need 6) right?

[CyanBlue]

Um... I believe so... :D

[jubei]

We use flash and html to detect. We have a flash 6 movie that redirects the user to the flash page. If it doesn't redirect them in 5 seconds, the meta tag redirects them to the html page.

Therefore, if they don't have Flash, they go to the html page. Or they would, if we had gotten around to setting up a html yet :)

[farafiro]

I believe the best way for this is to try it, see this
http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?s=&postid=88713#post88713