Re: FLASH: Hybrid HTML and Flash

[Matt Wobensmith]

Hi Helen!


Here's what's going on, as I see it.


1. IE/Win is trying to run "Install on Demand", which will d/l the Flash

Player from Microsoft's site. Microsoft built this "feature" into IE to

automatically install ActiveX when needed. You can disable it in your IE

settings so it won't occur for you. 


If you want to make sure no users out there get prompted to d/l the ActiveX,

ever, you could also consider omitting the OBJECT tag completely, and having

all browsers use the EMBED tag only. The drawbacks to this would be no

VBScript communication. I'm almost certain that IE/Win's "Install on Demand"

uses the clsid and codebase attributes of the OBJECT tag when determining

whether or not to d/l an ActiveX component. More info is here:


http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/uber_detection.htm#buil

tin



2. The detection HTML templates (Flash x with Image, Ad Banner) are

different. The former does not have VBScript, so it does not detect for the

ActiveX control (IE/Win). Users of IE/Win, viewing a page made with this

template, will still be asked to get the Flash Player.


If you want to make sure that the major browsers (not including Mac IE 4.5

and earlier) all behave the same, and do not prompt for a d/l, use the Ad

Banner templates - they do have VBScript ActiveX detection built-in. 



3. I found the TechNote that tells how to uninstall both the plug-in and

ActiveX players:


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


I dunno why it didn't turn up for you - I searched for "plug-in". Maybe we

should also add "plugin" to the search keywords?


Let me know if this doesn't work, or if you need me to investigate further.

:>)


Matt


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Matt Wobensmith

Macromedia


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