Macromedia Flash Loader or Html

themessiah

Just designing a nice personal site at the minute , with some macromedia flash intergrated . My question is there a code / loader or a piece of code that can check if a visitor to my site has the required macromedia player installed and if so forwards to the flash part of the site automatically alternatively if the visitor doesn’t have it it redirects to the html version.

Just wanted to know as its more slick then having a welcome page etc with the options available to the visitor who might not know what flash really is and therefore a lot of time spend on doing a proper flash intro is wasted.

Any help gratefully received

Rollo Tamasi

browserhawk can do this but i think it costs money. There a few scripts that can do this at actionscript.org

here is an example of one that a quick scan on their site finds
http://actionscript.org/tutorials/beginner/detect_flash_using_flash/index.shtml

Serbian

FlashObject is your man. It will detect if the person has the right version of Flash installed, and if not, it will display alternative HTML content instead. There is an example that trys to upgrade your Flash player if it is not the right version.