Re: FLASH: ULTIMATE IE & Netscape Flash Detection Script?

[John Dowdell]

At 7:18 AM 2/15/0, John Brzys wrote:

> Let the user decide. I hate being redirected to flash sites

> automatically just because I have the plugin installed.


That's an excellent point... just because someone *can* view rich content

does not imply that they will always wish to view it.


Not all browsers will tell JavaScript what they can do. The old Shockwave

trick or using a META-REFRESH has subsequently been adapted to Flash and is

useful for many sites. But you can't always predict the visitor's desires.


Notice the Macromedia splash page... it uses cookies to remember your last

choice, but always provides an override to let the visitor jump to the

other set of pages. (This came in very handy for me once when my mouse

broke... I could TAB among the links and hit RETURN to jump to the

plaintext site.)


Summary: It's possible to help guide the various browsers, but that's

different than actually controlling all visitors.


jd









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