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Alternative image for non-Flash visitors
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| Screenweasel 2004-03-18, 9:29 am |
| Hello and good morning.
In a web-based environment, is it possible to implement a default image in
place of a Flash movie for those visitors to the site who do not have Flash? If
so, how would I go about accomplishing that?
Thanks!
-screen
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| jmack007 2004-03-18, 11:29 am |
| Hello--
You use Javascript to accomplish this. In your page you will place a flash
player and version detection script that will then check to see if the
appropriate version of the flash player is installed on the user's system and
will build the HTML necessary to create OBJECT and EMBED tags.
If the proper player is NOT found, you simply use an ELSE statement in your
Javascript to build and display the HTML that will show your alternative jpeg,
gif, png etc.
If you need a decent script for doing this I can email one to you if you post
an address. Otherwise-- Javascript is the way to go. Just be aware-- you
should also include within you script tags a VBScript as well that will make
sure the movie OR the image will display in your Macintosh IE 5.5 user's
environment (if this is a platform you need to support).
--jmac
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| Screenweasel 2004-03-18, 11:29 am |
| Thank you very much for the reply.
I'd appreciate greatly any script you could send me. I'm not well versed in
javascript, just so you know, but have access to resources that are. Here is an
address you can reach me at.
deggleston@benelogic.com
Thanks again!
-screen
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| Ed Massey 2004-03-19, 1:34 pm |
| Or you could post it to the forum so everyone can benefit..
Very annoying to search a forum to find that the solution was found but
never posted :)
Thanks
Ed
"jmack007" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:c3cdct$dt$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> Hello--
>
> You use Javascript to accomplish this. In your page you will place a
flash
> player and version detection script that will then check to see if the
> appropriate version of the flash player is installed on the user's system
and
> will build the HTML necessary to create OBJECT and EMBED tags.
>
> If the proper player is NOT found, you simply use an ELSE statement in
your
> Javascript to build and display the HTML that will show your alternative
jpeg,
> gif, png etc.
>
> If you need a decent script for doing this I can email one to you if you
post
> an address. Otherwise-- Javascript is the way to go. Just be aware-- you
> should also include within you script tags a VBScript as well that will
make
> sure the movie OR the image will display in your Macintosh IE 5.5 user's
> environment (if this is a platform you need to support).
>
> --jmac
>
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| EBMesserLexington 2004-03-20, 8:28 am |
| You made the generous offer of a javascript and maby a vbscript that would
check for flash player and maby version. I have wrote my own javascript flash
detector, but have found it sketchy in some environments. As for a VBscript I
am completly remiss. My e-mail: is ebmesser@yahoo.com.
I would also be intrested in a way to check their connection speed.
Tanx
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| EBMesserLexington 2004-03-20, 8:28 am |
| I have written my own javascript for flash/ version detection but find it
sketchy across environments. As you brought to my attention, I have no vbscript
to support Steve Jobs "fruits". You made a gracious offer to email these
scripts to the instigator of this thread. Would the same be offered to another
humble soul? ebmesser@yahoo.com
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| jmack007 2004-03-20, 10:28 am |
| True. True.
So here it is then. You can use this either within the <head> tags of your
HTML document and have javascript build 2 alternate HTML pages (one with the
swf present the other with images present) or, if your page is more involved
then a simple html section and a flash movie you may put the script tags and
the code within the <body> of your document and then just alter the HTML
formatting within the Javascript to display the <object> and or <img> tags
within your page inline.
The VBScript is a very reliable way to include and alter content to be
delivered to your Macintosh users that have the IE 5.5 installed. It is
basically doing the same thing as what the Javascript checker function array
does to determine if flash is present and, if so, what version is present. I
do not know why IE5.5 for Mac chokes on Javascript checking-- I have just found
it does.
Here is the code:
<!--------- Detect for Flash 6+ OR give inline image if not found. ---------->
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
// Variables to store player version and player presence or not.
var MM_contentVersion = 6;
var plugin = (navigator.mimeTypes &&
navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"]) ?
navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"].enabledPlugin : 0;
// See if the Flash Player is installed and activated for windows platforms.
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;
}
// VBScript for Macintosh display in IE 5.5
// Macintosh platform IE tag fix for detection script.
else if (navigator.userAgent && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")>=0 &&
(navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Win") != -1)) {
//FS hide this from IE4.5 Mac by splitting the tag
document.write('<SCR' + 'IPT LANGUAGE=VBScript\> \n');
document.write('on error resume next \n');
document.write('MM_FlashCanPlay = (
IsObject(CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash." &
MM_contentVersion)))\n');
document.write('</SCR' + 'IPT\> \n');
}
// End VBScript for Macintosh display in IE 5.5
// If Flash 6+ is detected-- build the page and show the SWF.
if ( MM_FlashCanPlay ) {
document.write('<object
classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"');
document.write('
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve
rsion=6,0,0,0" ');
document.write(' id="script" width="778" height="430" align="center">');
document.write(' <param name=movie value="comingsoon.swf"> <param
name=quality value=high> <param name=bgcolor value=#eeeeee> ');
document.write(' <embed src="comingsoon.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#eeeeee
');
document.write(' swLiveConnect=flase width="778" height="430"
name="script" align="center"');
document.write(' type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">');
document.write(' </embed>');
document.write(' </object>');
}
// If Flash6+ is not present-- build the page and show the jpeg image.
else{
document.write('<img src="comingsoon.jpg" width="778" height="430"
usemap="#script" border=0>');
}
-->
</script>
You can modify the code to sniff for any version of the Flash Player and you
can also change any and all of the HTML form outputted by Javascript to reflect
the contents of your HTML page and generate 2 version dynamically.
--jmac
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| Ed Massey 2004-03-20, 1:29 pm |
| Thanks :)
"jmack007" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:c3hjg7$r26$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> True. True.
>
> So here it is then. You can use this either within the <head> tags of
your
> HTML document and have javascript build 2 alternate HTML pages (one with
the
> swf present the other with images present) or, if your page is more
involved
> then a simple html section and a flash movie you may put the script tags
and
> the code within the <body> of your document and then just alter the HTML
> formatting within the Javascript to display the <object> and or <img> tags
> within your page inline.
>
> The VBScript is a very reliable way to include and alter content to be
> delivered to your Macintosh users that have the IE 5.5 installed. It is
> basically doing the same thing as what the Javascript checker function
array
> does to determine if flash is present and, if so, what version is present.
I
> do not know why IE5.5 for Mac chokes on Javascript checking-- I have just
found
> it does.
>
> Here is the code:
>
> <!--------- Detect for Flash 6+ OR give inline image if not
found. ---------->
>
>
> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
>
> <!--
> // Variables to store player version and player presence or not.
> var MM_contentVersion = 6;
> var plugin = (navigator.mimeTypes &&
> navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"]) ?
> navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"].enabledPlugin : 0;
>
>
> // See if the Flash Player is installed and activated for windows
platforms.
> 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;
> }
>
>
>
> // VBScript for Macintosh display in IE 5.5
>
>
> // Macintosh platform IE tag fix for detection script.
> else if (navigator.userAgent && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")>=0
&&
> (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Win") != -1)) {
>
> //FS hide this from IE4.5 Mac by splitting the tag
> document.write('<SCR' + 'IPT LANGUAGE=VBScript\> \n');
> document.write('on error resume next \n');
> document.write('MM_FlashCanPlay = (
> IsObject(CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash." &
> MM_contentVersion)))\n');
> document.write('</SCR' + 'IPT\> \n');
> }
>
>
> // End VBScript for Macintosh display in IE 5.5
>
>
>
> // If Flash 6+ is detected-- build the page and show the SWF.
> if ( MM_FlashCanPlay ) {
> document.write('<object
> classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"');
> document.write('
>
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.ca
b#ve
> rsion=6,0,0,0" ');
> document.write(' id="script" width="778" height="430" align="center">');
> document.write(' <param name=movie value="comingsoon.swf"> <param
> name=quality value=high> <param name=bgcolor value=#eeeeee> ');
> document.write(' <embed src="comingsoon.swf" quality=high
bgcolor=#eeeeee
> ');
> document.write(' swLiveConnect=flase width="778" height="430"
> name="script" align="center"');
> document.write(' type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
> pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">');
> document.write(' </embed>');
> document.write(' </object>');
> }
>
>
> // If Flash6+ is not present-- build the page and show the jpeg image.
> else{
> document.write('<img src="comingsoon.jpg" width="778" height="430"
> usemap="#script" border=0>');
> }
>
>
> -->
>
>
> </script>
>
>
> You can modify the code to sniff for any version of the Flash Player and
you
> can also change any and all of the HTML form outputted by Javascript to
reflect
> the contents of your HTML page and generate 2 version dynamically.
>
> --jmac
>
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| .::Dr. J::. 2004-03-30, 9:07 pm |
| Thanks for the code jmac, thats good stuff.
Do you have any examples we can view online as well?
Also, do you have any code that would also detect what browser a user is using?
thx
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