FLASH: Detection

[Derek Goodwin]

Hello


I am new to this list, and I am sure this is an old question. Could

anybody point me to a foolproof system of detecting the flash plugin in

different versions of Netscape, IE and AOL.


I tried making small movie in Flash that sends people to an animated

page, and placing <meta> tags in the head of the HTML document to

redirect viewers who don't have the plugin. This works great on

everything but Windows IE 4 w/o the plugin, which uses the first Flash

movie's forwarding action to go to the main Flash Page, but then doesn't

play that one. I saved both movies in Flash 3 format from Flash 4.


I haven't been able to test IE 5 w/o the plugin. If anyone wants to look

at my test files, including the original Flash (fla) documents, they are

at:


http://www.tortus-tek.com/flash_detection/


detect.htm is the detection file.


Thank you in advance for any help.


Derek Goodwin



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