Re: FLASH: Distinguish Flash 2 from 3 plugin?

[John Dowdell]

At 4:13 PM 2/10/99, Joe Crawford wrote:

> Is it possible? Everything I read says it's dubious. Anything clever?


Hi Joe --  The navigator.plugins array does have a slightly different name

for versions, and I'd defer to the older technotes and articles for details

(memory fuzzy today).


If a Flash 2 Player tries to render SWF 3.0 content, then there won't

necessarily be any kind of alert... the old player will skip any tags it

doesn't understand, and so the most frequent symptom is "blank screen".


If memory serves, the Flash 2 Player would process URL actions in frames,

and so we couldn't base a page-branching routine on a simple frame action.

It might be possible, though, to do it from a movie clip... just

blue-skying here, and I haven't tested this branching handling myself yet.


What is it that you're trying to accomplish. Perhaps there's a way to

finesse the problem...?


jd





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