Re: FLASH: Ie 4.5 for Mac

[John Dowdell]

At 6:31 PM 1/15/99, Charlene Reese wrote:

> I thought Flash was supposed to be standard equipment by now but it

> isn't in this scenerio.


All downloadable Netscape browsers come installed with Flash, and all new

Macs and PCs either have Flash and Shockwave preinstalled or on their

operating system CD.


While the Microsoft browser CDs tend to have Shockwave and Flash, the

Microsoft browser downloads present these as an option.



> I read the tech note about IEMac not being plugin-detectable so what

> is the answer?


It's true that IE/Mac does not have a useful navigator.plugins object

accessible to JavaScript, and because ActiveX Controls are practically

confined to Windows there's also no use of the "CreateObject()" VBScript

function. Therefore it's difficult to make things easy for IE/Mac users.


You may wish to include a Flash file and have a "if you can't see the

animation" link.


jd






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