Detecting Windows media player

[paragvshah]

Hi Friends,

I want to detect for windows media player as soon as my home page is opened by the visitor to the site.
How can i do the detection of Windows media player, so that if any body does not have WMP on their machine it should give a prompt & give a link to download the media player.

Please help me out.

PARAG.

 

[Epimetheus]

Hi there,

This is perfectly do-able...but only in Netscape Navigator!

// Pass the name of a plug-in for this function to see
// if the plug-in is registered with this browser and
// that it is enabled for at least one MIME type of any kind.
function pluginIsReady(plug_in) {
for (var i = 0; i < navigator.plugins.length; i++) {
if (navigator.plugins.name.toLowerCase() == plug_in.toLowerCase()) {
for (var j = 0; j < navigator.plugins.length; j++) {
if (navigator.plugins[j].enabledPlugin) {
return true
}
}
return false
}
}
return false
}