Flash incorporation for non-flash user

[Daria]

Originally posted here: http://forums.webdeveloper.com/showt...hreadid=33299, but that forum is rarely visited lately.

Please, advise.

[zingmatter]

I use Javascript to detect whether the user has the flash plugin. If they do then I write the <object....etc to display the flash, and if not they can get a flat image.

Here's the code which you want to modify:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript">
<!--

var flashinstalled = 0;
var flashversion = 0;
MSDetect = "false";
if (navigator.plugins && navigator.plugins.length)
{
	x = navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"];
	if (x)
	{
		flashinstalled = 2;
		if (x.description)
		{
			y = x.description;
			flashversion = y.charAt(y.indexOf('.')-1);
		}
	}
	else
		flashinstalled = 1;
	if (navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash 2.0"])
	{
		flashinstalled = 2;
		flashversion = 2;
	}
}
else if (navigator.mimeTypes && navigator.mimeTypes.length)
{
	x = navigator.mimeTypes['application/x-shockwave-flash'];
	if (x && x.enabledPlugin)
		flashinstalled = 2;
	else
		flashinstalled = 1;
}
else
	MSDetect = "true";

// -->
</SCRIPT>

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript">

on error resume next

If MSDetect = "true" Then
	For i = 2 to 6
		If Not(IsObject(CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash." & i))) Then

		Else
			flashinstalled = 2
			flashversion = i
		End If
	Next
End If

If flashinstalled = 0 Then
	flashinstalled = 1
End If

</SCRIPT>

<script language="Javascript">

function isFlash() {

   if (flashinstalled == 2) {
     return true;
   } else {
     return false;
   } 
}


if (isFlash()) {
    document.write('<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"'); // and all the rest....


}
</script>

Hope this helps