RE: FLASH: preview, publish, alternate GIF problems

[Chad Kraeft]

To ensure they get to the right place, the script below can be adapted.

Have it go to the GIF page if the user doesn't have the plugin, have it go

to the Flash enabled page if they do...


HTH


<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

<!-- use this comment tag to hide the enclosed code from old browsers.


//Look for a version of Internet Explorer that supports ActiveX (i.e., one

that's

//running on a platform other than Mac or Windows 3.1) or a browser that

supports

//the plugin property of the navigator object and that has Flash Player 2.0

//installed.


if ((navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer" &&

    navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Mac") == -1 &&

    navigator.appVersion.indexOf("3.1") == -1) ||


    (navigator.plugins && navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"])

                       || navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash 2.0"]){




   //Load a pre-defined HTML page with Flash Player in it into the browser

window.


top.location.replace("flashindex.html")



}

else {

    //Load a pre-defined HTML page without Flash Player into the browser

window.


top.location.replace("htmlindex.html")

}


// Close the comment tag. -->

</SCRIPT>


-----Original Message-----

From:

ownerchinwag [dot] com

 [

ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On

 Behalf Of Ricardo

Madrazo

Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 2:23 PM

To:

flasherchinwag [dot] com

Subject: RE: FLASH: preview, publish, alternate GIF problems



What I'm trying to do is find a way which will confidently display a GIF

image if the user does not have Flash, without prompting them to download,

install, etc... is there any REAL way to do this with the embed/object code

and/or javascripting?  Why are we given the choice to publish as "Flash 4

with image" if we're always going to be asking the user to download the

plugin?  I don't get it.


Ricardo Madrazo

   Multimedia

   650-345-7400 ext. 211

   http://www.live365.com/

   The World's #1 Internet Radio Community




-----Original Message-----

From:

ownerchinwag [dot] com

 [

ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On

 Behalf Of Zohar

Laor

Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 12:37 PM

To:

flasherchinwag [dot] com

Cc:

rmadrazolive365 [dot] com

Subject: Re: FLASH: preview, publish, alternate GIF problems




--- Ricardo Madrazo <

rmadrazolive365 [dot] com

> wrote:

.

>

> I want the user to either see the Flash movie (if

> Flash is installed) or an

> animated GIF (if Flash is NOT installed). In Publish

> Settings I have it as

> "Flash 4 with image", but when I set it to publish

> and upload it to our

> server and test it on a box with no Flash, a popup

> dialog appears offering

> me to download content from Macromedia, trust

> content from Macromedia, you

> know the type


That's a feature of IE only.

Why don't you do the opposite.  Load the image page

(even though I preffer to author a full fledge HTML

page with a proper link to download) and if the user

has a Flash plugin, point them to the Flash page, if

not just stay on the first page.


Zohar.

web site: http://www.kalel.com

Art Collection: http://www.kalel.com/superart




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