[thelist] Javascript problem in IE 4.5 Mac

[Jerome Giudicelli]

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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