Flash browser detection?
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- BlueTree
I remember a time that we would insert a javascrip that would swap out a GIF in place of Flash if a person didn't have flash installed.
We are trying to put some flash on our site and we are a big enough site that I definitly want to have all my bases covered.
Does anyone still use the GIF replacement code? How come the only scripts I can find are from 1999?
Do people just trust the flash plugin to do it's thing?
Any help is really appreciated.
- spiralstarez0
the best flash detection tool that I've found that covers all the bases...
- heavyt0
i concur with spiral. I have been usign the Moock solution for a year now and i think that it works very well.
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- fifty500
it's a good find, but the code on the site i posted can also be used as an alternate consideration to download the moock fpi. the Moock thing is good stuff of course.
- BlueTree0
I think I'll go with the first version. I was looking at the Mook script earlier and it seemed like a lot of Javascript to add to the page. We get a lot of traffic and another one of my projects is reducing page size so of the 2% of the people out there that can't see flash I'll show the gif.
Thanks
- fifty500
glad to finally be of use to someone. i think i'll quit while i'm ahead
- BlueTree0
Does this mean that all of your advice previously was useless.
I may have to rethink my decision. ;)
- spiralstarez0
Bluetree:
If you want to have all your bases covered you should remember that 10% of browsers have their javascript disabled...
http://www.w3schools.com/browser…
so your detection may not work at all.
I haven't used it for a while, but I think the Moock one as the last default (if javascript etc. isn't on) just default's to an image.
- BlueTree0
This is at the end, which looks like it would cover no javascript:
Plus I believe our site requires javascript to complete a transaction
- shaft0
I've seen disabled JS _once_ in my life and the computer's owner was weird.