[thelist] Javascript problem in IE 4.5 Mac

sarah disaster7 at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 22 14:10:59 CST 2001


Thanks for the suggestion, we use to use something
similar to this, but because the user got stuck using
the back button and getting redirected back again.
That's why we changed to what we use now.

Thanks again!


--- Jerome Giudicelli <jayrom at earthlink.net> wrote:
> I had the same problem recently.
> The only solution I've found is to use a check page
> with an embedded 1-frame flash movie. The frame has
> a GetURL action which redirects to the flash version
> of your site, so that visitors with flash will be
> sent there almost instantly. You need to add a
> refresh meta tag for the ones without flash, with a
> short refresh time, which will redirect them to the
> non-flash site.
> Hope this is clear.
> Jérôme
> 
> ------Original Message------
> From: John Eckman <eckman at liquidsquid.com>
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Sent: February 22, 2001 4:42:59 PM GMT
> Subject: [thelist] Javascript problem in IE 4.5 Mac
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> John Eckman                     "It'd be a hell of a
> lot cheaper
> www.liquidsquid.com             to just suck on a
> penny"
> 
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