FLASH: Best way to detect flash and nonflash browsers

[Norm at Signal]

I am looking for help.  We have a web page the has a flash item on it which

if it runs, it redirects the browser to the flash site.  If it doesn't run

the user see's a standard html page saying the web site requires flash plug

in.  This has been working fine in test mode.  However some people in London

office are reporting things like they just get a bunch of clicking, or they

see a bunch of flashing in the browser (I think they are talking about in

the browser status area).  The redirect item does have an audible click.  It

appears that for these people they get in a loop where the redirect loops.


The web site is in test mode at http://itxc.signalz.com.


The real flash page that the above gets directed to is

http://itxc.signalz.com/intro.html


When I send these users to the intro.html page, they see the flash content

with no problems, so we know they have flash installed.


Are there other or better ways to detect and support flash and non-flash

browsers?  Can anyone confirm any of the problems above?  We tested here

with similar configuration and it works fine.


Thank you!



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