[thelist] Flash Substitution & Detection

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Talk to some of the people at news://forums.macromedia.com/macromedia.flash

See how they are doing it. They have FAQ somewhere.

Plus this is a very active news group.


>From: "Peter-Paul Koch" <gassinaumasis at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>Subject: Re: [thelist] Flash Substitution & Detection
>Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 11:42:43 -0000
>
>
>>A client wants the navigation of his site to be in Flash. I think I'm
>>only going to do it, if there is a reliable way to substitute the Flash
>>part with plain ole HTML if a user doesn't have the plugin. So, is there?
>
>http://www.xs4all.nl/~ppk/js/index.html?flash.html
>
>>Follow up question: What's the best way to detect Flash client-side? I 
>>hear
>>it can be done sorta reliable with JS and/or VBScript. But the scripts I
>>find at Macromedia ("Flash Deployment Kit") and other places on the web 
>>are
>>too bloated for my taste and I don't know if they're any good. There 
>>*must*
>>be some small neat script, right?
>
>You need both JavaScript and VBScript, and even then it's not completely
>reliable. Macromedia's scripts are really huge, bloated and sometimes Java
>reliant, which is nonsense, to my mind.
>
>My script (URL above) isn't really small, but it isn't terribly huge 
>either.
>
>ppk
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