FLASH: OT: vbscript in Moock detect for Flash

[Helen Triolo]

I'm using Moock's detection script for a page with Flash in a table cell

(replaced with a gif if no flash) and it works fine.  But his script has

more in it than I need, so I'm trying to simplify it and ran into a

problem with the section that writes vbscript (inside a javascript

routine) for detection in IE.  Here is a piece of code that works fine

(no error generated, but it's not doing anything useful -- it was just a

test):


<.SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.1" type="text/javascript">

<!--

var isIE = (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE") != -1) ? true : false;		

var isWin = (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Windows") != -1) ? true :

false; 

//alert('inside first js routine');

if(isIE && isWin) { 

	document.write('<SCR' + 'IPT LANGUAGE=VBScript\> \n');

	document.write('on error resume next \n');

	document.write('  pluginVersion = 5 \n');

	document.write('</SCR' + 'IPT\> \n'); 

}

// -->

<./SCRIPT>


and here is a piece of code that generates an error ("statement

expected") when the next javascript section immediately following is

reached:


<.SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.1" type="text/javascript">

<!--

var isIE = (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE") != -1) ? true : false;		

var isWin = (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Windows") != -1) ? true :

false; 

//alert('inside first js routine');

if(isIE && isWin) { 

	document.write('<SCR' + 'IPT LANGUAGE=VBScript\> \n');

	document.write('on error resume next \n');

	document.write('if

IsObject(CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.3")) then \n');

	document.write('  pluginVersion = 3 \n');

	document.write('endif \n');	

	document.write('</SCR' + 'IPT\> \n'); /

}

// -->

<./SCRIPT>


I also tried breaking up the if and endif statements into pieces like

the script tags, in case the if was being read out of context, but it

didn't help.  Can anyone see an obvious (or not obvious) reason why this

code generates an error on the line following the final closing script

tag?  In both instances, the variable "pluginVersion" is defined

globally in a js script section preceding this one.  (Not sure how it is

that vbscript sets a variable defined in javascript, but it does seem to

work with the flash4installed etc variables in the original script, so I

don't think that's the problem).  And I added the dots in the script

tags here so this email would be readable (I hope).


Regards,

Helen 

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