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| Subject: | RE: Browser detection script |
| From: | David Williamson |
| Date: | Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:50:55 GMT |
As posted earlier in the week, it is possible to scrap the idea of
unreliable scripting, VB, JAVA, whatever, when a simple flash movie,
maybe 50bytes in size, and html will always work.
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David Williamson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdowdell
macromedia [dot] com [SMTP:jdowdellmacromedia [dot] com]> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 1998 1:16 AM
> To: flasher
shocker [dot] com> Subject: Re: Browser detection script
>
> At 5:23 AM 3/9/98, Kelly, Derek wrote:
> >I was also told by a totally unreliable source that Javascript cannot
> >detect the Flash plug-in in Explorer.
>
> That's true. Microsoft browsers do not have the navigator.plugins
> array,
> and so cannot tell you their Netscape plugins. (This is why Aftershock
> will
> err on the side of caution and generally present GIF animations for
> IE4/Mac.)
>
> Many of the Microsoft/Win32 browsers do offer a way to tell your page
> about
> the ActiveX Controls they have installed, however. This uses VBScript
> rather than JavaScript, and requires VBScript 2.0 or greater (in
> practice,
> IE302/Win32 or greater).
>
> Now, unfortunately, IE4/Mac barfs on Microsoft's VBScript, so you'll
> need
> to protect one of Microsoft's browsers from one of Microsoft's
> technologies. (This is why the new Aftershock 2.0 beta, for both
> Director
> and Flash, uses document.writes on its VBScript block.)
>
>
> Here's the hard part of browser detection: the various browsers have
> different abilities, and the various designs have different goals.
> That's
> why you'll see various browser-detection schemes in John Croteau's
> wonderful resource, in the technotes, in Aftershock or Smart Shockwave
> or
> ShockRave, and in the other routines that people use. Different
> routines
> have different goals.
>
> But yes, the Microsoft browsers cannot tell JavaScript their
> multimedia
> capabilities, and many MS browsers can tell VBScript whether they have
> an
> ActiveX Control. But once IE/Win32 browsers see an object tag, they'll
> start to download it automatically.
>
>
> No real help, I know, but I hope the context at least is of a bit of
> use....
>
> jd
>
>
>
>
> John Dowdell, Macromedia Tech Support, San Francisco CA US
>
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