Re: FLASH: small movie to determine whether user has plugin installed

[Sienna]

I do this also, making a mini movie to test for shockwave, however; I saw

something I like even better.  Someone here, I believe from Macromedia,

mentioned the new Disney site.


I went to look at it the flash movie told ME I already had flash. How did

it do that? 


Another thing, I wanted to see what would happen if I told it to install

shockwave and I was impressed.  It didn't send me to the normal macromedia

site to select from their autinstall menu.  It just did it on it's own.  Is

this type of setup available to all flashers or just to big companies like

Disney who can bypass the normal setup of sending ppl to the Macromedia

site first?  I'd love it if my visitors could get auto install without

going to another site!


Sienna




At 05:17 PM 3/31/99 +0000, you wrote:

>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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