RE: FLASH: Re: Opera/alternative browsers

[Matt Wobensmith]

Hi Jason -


You wrote:


>Which brings me to the question...How do alternative browser makers

>"align themselves with what the world of web developers do in common

>practice for plug-in detection". 


The best example of this is Microsoft's IE 5 for Mac... finally, it has the

plug-ins object, so that JavaScript methods of player detection now

function. It's taken them a while to implement this; up until v5,

script-based detection never worked for this browser, making it the bane of

the Flash developer's world.


Updating this browser so it matches the conventional script-based detection

routines was a smart move, as well as fixing some of the other problems this

browser had.


The TechNote on Mac IE:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/mac_ie_issues.htm


If Opera uses Netscape plug-ins, it should have the plug-ins object so it

can be detected by these scripts. If not, it would require yet another

routine to add to your pages for this to work properly.



Matt


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Matt Wobensmith

Macromedia Tech Support

Flash Team Lead


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