FLASH: small movie to determine whether user has plugin installed

[d.l.cheseldine]

Quite a lot of Flash sites now seem to have a mini movie with a message

along the lines of "If you can see this movie then you have the Flash

plugin, otherwise...."


Do these have any other purpose other than saving the user the time of

downloading a large file only to see the broken plugin icon?  (Though that

seems a good enough reason).


Also, if the user doesn't see the movie, then is it normal practice to

provide a link to Macromedia's plugin download page?


Thanks


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David Cheseldine               | Email:

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Multimedia Developer           |

Dept of Rheumatology           | Tel: +44-121-414-6787

University of Birmingham       | FAX: +44-121-414-6794

Birmingham B15 2TT UK




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