Re: FLASH: Internet Explorer Question

[John Croteau]

Hi William and all,


Run down on Mac IE features or rather lack of features:


Detection:

  No Script detection of plugin possible.

  Detection script relying only on JavaScript has two possibilities:

     1) Set up to always provide alternate content (GIF or FlashJava or

alternate page).

     2) Always expose player to Flash Player, if no Flash plugin present

visitor will get No-Plugin Icon.


Script Communicartion:

  No script communication with Flash is possible because Mac IE doesn't

have a 32 bit version of either Live Connect or ActiveX (or even an

option to host one that I know of).


VBScript:

  IE4 Mac doesn't have VBScript but when encounters an HTML page with

VBScript, by default, it will let you know (with a popup box) there is

something on the page it doesn't understand (VBScript).


Local playback:

  Cannot preview Flash files locally without Microsoft Personal Web

Server. Browser is unable to connect to a file using local file syntax

(file://), it can only connect with Web syntax (http://).


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