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Blondbubble
05-22-2004, 12:38 AM
I have made a video using Premiere Pro that I want to include on my web site. My audience is both Macs and PCs. Most of them will not know if they have Windows Media Player or QuickTime. Some will not even know which operating system they are running. I am planning to make 2 html files for the video (one WMP and one QT). My question...... Is there a javascript for determining which html file the viewer should be directed to? Or, is there a better solution to my problem? All suggestions welcomed. Thank you!
Daniel T
05-22-2004, 12:45 AM
This (http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/sniffer/browser_type.html) is a good article that explains how to get information from the user's computer. However, I do not believe it is possible to get the user's Media Player Information. However, you don't need to worry about that, because if the user does not have the media player associated with the file type, it will print a link to a page where they can download the player, where it would normally put the movie.
-Dan