[thelist] Javascript problem in IE 4.5 Mac

John Eckman eckman at liquidsquid.com
Thu Feb 22 11:41:14 CST 2001


At 10:47 AM 2/22/01, sarah <disaster7 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>Does anyone know of an issue
>this would cause in IE 4.5?

Yep. You can't detect the flash plugin in IE 4.5 Mac. At all.

See http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/mac_ie_issues.htm

which says, and I quote:

"There is no way to detect plug-in installation in Internet Explorer 4.5 
and below on the Macintosh platform with scripting. "

and offers some workarounds.

So it isn't a javascript problem, so much as a bug in the way IE 4.x Mac 
handles flash plug-in detection.

John



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www.liquidsquid.com             to just suck on a penny"





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