RE: FLASH: Testing non-Flash detection

[Ricardo Madrazo]

Wayne,


Hi.  I was reading your post and thought you might like to know about the

Moock Flash Player Inspector.  It's a script written by Colin Moock which is

pretty damn foolproof in terms of detecting different versions of Flash and

acting upon the parameters you set.  It is a very very good script, and

allows both for redirecting transparently to a Flash/nonFlash page fork or

for embedding Flash within an HTML page and displaying alternate gif content

for those without flash:


http://www.moock.org/webdesign/flash/detection/moockfpi/


Ricardo Madrazo

Multimedia Design

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Subject: Re: FLASH: Testing non-Flash detection



Wayne,


Thanks for your response.  I am attempting to use the flash/meta-redirect

method which does not require the recipient to make a decision.  The site

supports a lot of non-techies and the decision to select flash or non-flash

and the knowledge of whether flash is installed with their browser is

beyond them.  In fact "See the Flashed Site" could sound like pornography

to these folk.


So, since I have installed flash on my PCs, I need to test the

flash/meta-redirect

feature and I would rather not de-install flash.  I was hoping that someone

has

a trick setup on line that could access a URL and redirect the results

with-or-

without flash.


Another alternative is to use the Lynx browser to test the non-flash

transfer,

but that has its own problem.  In this case the target page is an ASP and if

the meta-redirect occurs, it simply re-invokes the page with a parameter

indicating that non-flash is needed -- then it substitutes GIFs for SWFs.

The Lynx Browser would tell me the GIFS are there, but not how the page

looks with the GIFs instead of the SWFs.


I can also use a ASP variable overide to force GIF mode vs SWF mode.  Hmmm,

now that's practical.


Wayne, thanks for making me think this through!

--Dennis


At 02:16 PM 7/25/00 -0400, you wrote:

I use this type of script ...




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