Re: FLASH: Netscape Plugin Problems

[John Dowdell]

At 12:04 PM 11/16/99, Eric Smollin wrote:

> If the browser has the Flash 3 plugin then my Flash 4 content will

> not display... why doesn't it recognize that it needs to

> upgrade?


The SWF file format is tagged, like HTML... older readers will ignore

features they don't understand. A Flash 3 Player will render what it can of

a SWF 4 file. It won't just refuse to play it.


There are a couple of approaches to get what you want... here's background

and one style:

"How can I detect whether a movie is playing in the Flash 4 Player?"

http://www.macromedia.com/go/14126


jd







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