Robert Hoekman, Jr., is a Macromedia Certified Professional and a user-experience advocate. He founded the Flash and Multimedia Users Group of Arizona (FMUG.az), currently works as a Flash developer for Interactive Alchemy, and is the author of Flash Out of the Box (O'Reilly, 2004) and the "10 Minutes with Flash" series of articles featured in InformIT.com's Flash Reference Guide. Learn more about Robert at www.rhjr.net.
The problem has riddled developers since the birth of Macromedia Flash: What
happens when a site visitor doesn't have the version of Macromedia Flash
Player needed for my content, or doesn't have one at all? Many answers have
appeared over the years. And so far, the work has not been the result of
developers trying to reinvent the wheel. Instead, it's been the result of
developers trying to invent a wheel that actually works.
Can Flash detection be truly effective? Can it be seamless for site visitors
and simple for you to implement? Can it make the player upgrade process
friendlier?
In this article, I'll discuss the pros and cons of several approaches to
Flash detection (and include a Flash Detection Experience Matrix). I also
describe the new Flash 8 detection script, which, along with Flash Player
Express Install, just might be the answer we've all been waiting f... (more)
Robert Hoekman, Jr., is a Macromedia Certified Professional and a user-experience advocate. He founded the Flash and Multimedia Users Group of Arizona (FMUG.az), currently works as a Flash developer for Interactive Alchemy, and is the author of Flash Out of the Box (O'Reilly, 2004) and the "10 Minutes with Flash" series of articles featured in InformIT.com's Flash
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