Re: FLASH: OT: vbscript in Moock detect for Flash

[Helen Triolo]

No answers on this from the state courts, so I'm bumping it up to the

supreme court in hopes that someone here will know...


Scenario:  running IE5, flash activex disabled per Macromedia

instructions, all copies of swflash.anyextension deleted from hard

drive, coded with subset and variants of Moock detection routine


Case 1) http://i-technica.com/flashdetect/detect_ie1a.html: popup

alertbox shows actualVersion=0 as expected, gif displayed as expected,

no prompts, everything peachy


Case 2) http://i-technica.com/flashdetect/detect_ie3a.html (code same in

all but 2nd section of javascript, but should function same): popup

alertbox shows actualVersion=5 and then does the "Do you want to install

and run Flash 5.0?" prompt.  Why does it think actualVersion=5?


Case 3) http://i-technica.com/flashdetect/detect_ie1.html (same code as

case 1, but with 2 lines added in body javascript to display variables

flash5installed and flash3installed):  popup alertbox shows

actualVersion=0, followed by runtime error, flash5installed undefined. 

Why undefined instead of false?  And if flash5installed is undefined,

why isn't actualVersion also undefined?


Any answers to 2 or 3 would be much appreciated.


Regards,

Helen 

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