RE: FLASH: Request aid from MAC, IE 4.5 & Netscape 4.6 users.

[Frederico]

One more note I failed to clarify:


Your sniffer.htm script fails because it attempts to both launch Java 

(not JavaScript), a notoriously bad and slow, processor-crippling, 

Netscape-made version,  at the same instant it tries to load the Flash 

plugin (both 3 and 4, if present). If no plugin is present, your 

JavaScript is allowed to execute, the JAR file loads and Java launches 

properly, installs the F3 plugin properly, continues to load the site 

fine--until you return to the main page then WHAM! hard crash again.


IE4.5 likely didn't fail on my machines because it is configured to use 

Apple MRJ 2.1.x, a better, faster, more stable Java engine. Stock configs 

might fail if using the MSIE Java engine.


My suggestion to resolve the problem, based on how you attempted to build 

the entry of this site, is to merely sniff for the Flash plugin on one 

page (via your sniffer.swf)  and redirect non-Flash-enabled browsers (via 

META) to a different page with all the JavaScript to inititate loading of 

the missing plugin, so as to prevent Java, JavaScript and Flash from 

stepping on each other.


HTH


Frederico


~Following Apple's lead in producing compelling machines people want 

to buy, Microsoft's next major release of Win 2000 will now offer the

'Blue Screen of Death' in five tasty new colors.~

                       

                                     --[adapted from] David Puett


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