Re: FLASH: SW 7.0 and IE 4.5 not working?

[Chip Taylor]

>> Has anyone been having problems with the Shockwave/Flash 7.0 player

>> and IE 4.5? When I try to view sites I am getting the non-flash screens

>> suggesting I download the most recent version. What gives?

>

>You don't mention the machine, but I assume it's a Mac.

Yes.


>You don't mention whether your other browsers on that box work normally,

>but I'll assume they don't.

Actually, that's the only reason I knew something was amiss. Navigator 

works fine.


>One way to achieve that symptom of "perpetual update" is if the path to the

>system folder has been renamed since installation... it can't find itself

>then. More info available by searching technotes with text "shockwave 7 AND

>update".

Check out what I pasted below from the Macromedia tech notes. Is there 

any way around this or are we going to have to always have some sort of 

intro-page to all our Flash sites? 



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Detection

There is no way to detect plug-in installation in Internet Explorer on 

the Macintosh platform with scripting. For additional information 

regarding browsers that do not support plug-in detection, refer to What 

Browsers Support Detection of the Flash Player? (TechNote ID #12853). 

There are two ways to resolve this issue for Flash movies: 

Design the page to provide alternate content, such as a GIF image or 

Flash through the Java Player, or redirect to an alternate URL. 

Aftershock will write code to provide content in an alternate method. 

Design the page to always use the Flash Player. If there is no plug-in, 

the viewer will see the broken puzzle piece icon. If the movie is a Flash 

3 movie and the Player is a Flash 2 player, there will be a blank space 

on the page where the movie should be.


Script Communication

Macintosh Internet Explorer does not have a 32 bit version of either Live 

Connect or ActiveX. It is therefore not possible to have scripting 

communication with Flash movies. 


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