'browser' check??? 2

[muchocurious]

hi everyone,
...curious about some 'pre-checks' for a site ...

normally (maybe not!!!) the enter site consists of a choice, if you want html or flash and then enter. now i was thinking if there is a script, that checks by itself if you have flash and takes you to the flash site. if you dont ... takes you to the html. that way you dont have to put up an 'enter' page w/all those decisions of browser sizes and etc. that most people skip reading and dont care for anyways.

in addition ... are there any 'pre-checks' that a good page should have? if so, any links for tuts or material to read up on?

thanx in advance.

 

[billwatson]

if you publish with mx the html automatically checks for the player and if it isnt there prompts the user to download.
that solves most problems

if you want to redirect to an equivelant html site then get the detection kit from macromedia

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/detection.html

 

[muchocurious]

thanx for your reply ...
kind of figured this, as was mentioned in :

http://www.tek-tips.com/gviewthread.cfm/lev2/4/lev3/31/pid/250/qid/521469

and see that there is no automated set up. still need to read up on

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/detection.html

to see what that is all about ...

thanx, .... and in your opinion (or anyone else) ... are enter pages with flash or html choice outdated????? any new design tips one should follow or NOT?

 

[oldnewbie]

The actual link is...

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/player/flash_deployment_readme/

Regards,

 

[billwatson]

if i go to a site i am looking for something

"DO I WANT TO ENTER" nonsense often leads to me clicking away

if i didnt want in i wouldnt be there. this kind of message is as redundant as the boring intros that gave flash a bad name it still hasnt quite recovered from with the 'SKIP INTRO"

for a large commercial site with heavy traffic its worth the trouble to seamlessly redirect those without the player to an html version.

otherwise dont bother.