Re: FLASH: browser sensing

[Bob Schwartz]

Hello Eric,


>>I've posted (a few times) method that routes users to a Flash or non-Flash

>page without the user having to make a choice regardless of whether the

>plug-in can be detected with JavaScript. But only one person has commented

>about it..<<


If you would kindly post it again, I would appreciate it.

>

>>The issue is that some browsers don't have a plug-in object so it's

>impossible to find out if the plug-in exists in all cases with JavaScript

>alone.<<


what is a plug-in object and which major revs/browsers, in your experience, are

known not to have one?


Many thanks.


Regards,


bob

>

>>I have read here that IE will not work with javascript code to detect

>>Flash3.....and under the assumption that this is the case, I am curious as

>>to why some sites using flash still have js to detect the plug-in in

>>netscape..while offering the "if you see this you have flash" kind of

>>opening page for, presumably, IE users.

>>

>>why not just avoid the javascript entirely and use the same validating

>>method for both NS and IE?

>

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