Detection Script Modification

[Colin Moock]

For those of you using hand made Flash detection scripts (not

AfterShock scripts) just a little reminder:

If you used to use the plugin name to detect flash, as in:

	if (navigator.plugins && navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash 2.0"])


The name has changed to "Shockwave Flash" with the version 3 plugin.


The easiest way to get around the change is to check for the mime type

instead (since both 2.0 and 3.0 use the same mime type), as in:

	if (navigator.mimeTypes &&

navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"])


Of course, if your site *requires* flash 3, and won't work with flash

2, then you'd want to combine the two and send 2.0 users to an upgrade

page...



I bring this up to the list because the detection script that everyone

used to use from the Macromedia Flash Support area checks for

navigator.plugins, which means that users of flash 3 would be told they

don't have flash.


FYI.


-Colin


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