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Jami
5-29-03, 10:21 PM
I had a Flash into designed for me, but the guy used ASP in the index page to test for the Flash plug-in and send the visitor to a plain html version if they don't have the plug-in.

But .... it won't work hosted on PowWeb so..... I checked and PowWeb does not support ASP/VB.

Is there a JavaScript or PHP way to test for Flash that works here at PowWeb?

Here is where the intro is -
http://www.jmmgrace.com/index.html

Thanks,
CJS
5-30-03, 11:51 AM
Here is the javascript code generated by Dreamweaver MX

Copy and paste the following in the HEAD tags:

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
<!--
function MM_checkPlugin(plgIn, theURL, altURL, autoGo) { //v4.0
var ok=false; document.MM_returnValue = false;
with (navigator) if (appName.indexOf('Microsoft')==-1 || (plugins && plugins.length)) {
ok=(plugins && plugins[plgIn]);
} else if (appVersion.indexOf('3.1')==-1) { //not Netscape or Win3.1
if (plgIn.indexOf("Flash")!=-1 && window.MM_flash!=null) ok=window.MM_flash;
else if (plgIn.indexOf("Director")!=-1 && window.MM_dir!=null) ok=window.MM_dir;
else ok=autoGo; }
if (!ok) theURL=altURL; if (theURL) window.location=theURL;
}
//-->
</script>



Then place this code in the openning BODY tag, replacing index_noflash.htm with your url without flash:

<body onLoad="MM_checkPlugin('Shockwave Flash','','index_noflash.htm',true);return document.MM_returnValue">

Hope this helps.
Jami
5-31-03, 01:47 AM
Thanks for the reply....