adobe flash required message

**canemasters** · 15 Aug 2007, 04:12 PM

I need my site to display a sign that only appears to users who do not have flash installed, that the need to go to

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/downl...ShockwaveFlash

and get flahs before using the site.

Thank you!

**gjh42** · 15 Aug 2007, 04:39 PM

...and if they don't feel like getting Flash installed, or for some reason can't, you don't want to sell to them?

Best practice is to allow at least basic functional use to anybody visiting your site. You can enhance the experience with flash or javascript if you want, but there should be a way to use your site without them.

**Stuff4Toys** · 15 Aug 2007, 04:57 PM

Originally Posted by canemasters

I need my site to display a sign that only appears to users who do not have flash installed, that the need to go to

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/downl...ShockwaveFlash

and get flahs before using the site.

Thank you!

Don't remember how now, but 4 or 5 years ago I had a flash panel on a website, and had an "Alternate Image" for viewers that didn't have flash. It consisted of a static graphic that fit in the same place as the Flash presentation.

**canemasters** · 15 Aug 2007, 06:23 PM

So it would be best practice to make an alternate .jpg header so users can at least get around... Sounds good. I'll have to make one, but that should be no problem. I'll worry how to make it work after I get it made.

Thank you.

**Stuff4Toys** · 15 Aug 2007, 08:14 PM

Now this is several years old, not sure how it's done now. And based on Macromedia not Adobe Flash, but I would assume it's similar because this script still works. JOhn ><>

Code:

 
<MAP NAME="slideshow">
 <AREA COORDS="0,0,0,0" HREF="#">
</MAP> 
 
 <SCRIPT language=JavaScript1.1>
 <!--
 if ( MM_FlashCanPlay ) {
  document.write('<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"');
  document.write('  codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/s...ersion=6,0,0,0" ');
  document.write(' ID="script" WIDTH="460" HEIGHT="200" ALIGN="">');
  document.write(' <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.trackermarine.com/gifs/PhotoPresentation.swf"> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=FF0000>  '); 
  document.write(' <EMBED src="http://www.trackermarine.com/gifs/PhotoPresentation.swf" quality=high bgcolor=FF0000  ');
  document.write(' swLiveConnect=FALSE WIDTH="460" HEIGHT="200" NAME="script" ALIGN=""');
  document.write(' TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">');
  document.write(' </EMBED>');
  document.write(' </OBJECT>');
 } else{
  document.write('<IMG SRC="http://www.trackermarine.com/gifs/frontGraphic.jpg" WIDTH="460" HEIGHT="200" usemap="#slideshow" BORDER=0>');
 }
 //-->
 </SCRIPT><NOSCRIPT><IMG SRC="Noah_Images/BANNERS/frontGraphic[1].jpg" USEMAP="#slideshow" BORDER=0 width="460" height="200"></NOSCRIPT>

**Stuff4Toys** · 15 Aug 2007, 08:21 PM

This part went at the top of the page just below the
</head>
<body>

Code:

 
<SCRIPT language=JavaScript1.1>
<!--
var MM_contentVersion = 6;
var plugin = (navigator.mimeTypes && navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"]) ? navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"].enabledPlugin : 0;
if ( plugin ) {
  var words = navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"].description.split(" ");
     for (var i = 0; i < words.length; ++i)
     {
  if (isNaN(parseInt(words[i])))
  continue;
  var MM_PluginVersion = words[i]; 
     }
 var MM_FlashCanPlay = MM_PluginVersion >= MM_contentVersion;
}
else if (navigator.userAgent && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")>=0 
   && (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Win") != -1)) {
 document.write('<SCR' + 'IPT LANGUAGE=VBScript\> \n'); //FS hide this from IE4.5 Mac by splitting the tag
 document.write('on error resume next \n');
 document.write('MM_FlashCanPlay = ( IsObject(CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash." & MM_contentVersion)))\n');
 document.write('</SCR' + 'IPT\> \n');
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>

**canemasters** · 16 Aug 2007, 01:56 AM

Okay, I'm calling up my flash with:

I've gone ahead and made a jpg of the header. What do I do to make it call up this .jpg file if they do not have a flash browser? I'm thinking I have to do it in the swfobject.js file...?

**DrByte** · 16 Aug 2007, 05:29 AM

Originally Posted by canemasters

Okay, I'm calling up my flash with:

I've gone ahead and made a jpg of the header. What do I do to make it call up this .jpg file if they do not have a flash browser? I'm thinking I have to do it in the swfobject.js file...?

Look again at LibertyFlag's first posting of code ... see the <NOSCRIPT> section after the <SCRIPT>....</SCRIPT> stuff ? That's what you need.

**Stuff4Toys** · 16 Aug 2007, 02:24 PM

Here's another one, (a little more current) this one loads the frontF.jpg first then the flash loads over the top. I don't have the java for the top of the page for this one. See it at www.trackboats.com .

Code:

 
<div style="width:950px; height:300px; border-bottom:2px solid #000;"><img src="images/frontF.jpg" border="0"></div>
<div id="homeSlideShow" style="width:950px; height:300px; position:absolute; top:83px; z-index:99;"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
 var FO = { movie:"/images/homeSlideShow.swf", width:"950", height:"300", majorversion:"7", build:"0", wmode:"transparent" };
 UFO.create(FO, "homeSlideShow");
</script>

I have not seen this site with out Flash, so I don't know how it reacts without

**Stuff4Toys** · 16 Aug 2007, 02:58 PM

Hey DrByte
So I tried playing with the later code from trackerboats.com and made a little web page to duplicate it.

Code:

 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
 <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="http://www.trackerboats.com/JavaScript/ufo.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div style="width:950px; height:300px; border-bottom:2px solid #000;"><img src="http://www.trackerboats.com/images/frontF.jpg" border="0"></div>
<div id="homeSlideShow" style="width:950px; height:300px; position:absolute; top:83px; z-index:99;"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
 var FO = { movie:"http://www.trackerboats.com/images/homeSlideShow.swf", width:"950", height:"300", majorversion:"7", build:"0", wmode:"transparent" };
 UFO.create(FO, "homeSlideShow");
</script>
</body>
</html>

When the page loads the frontF.jpg loads low on the screen and then the flash pushes it up and loads in the lower position. How did they get it to load over the top? Next is this ufo.js available to the public somewhere?

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