Flash or HTML

Is there any chance to download Flash or HTML contents into browser automatically?

For example:
Something checks if a client browser (IE or NN) has a right Flash plugin installed.
If yes - server sends a Flash movie.
If not - server sends a substitute HTML content.

Don't cross post - you already posted this in the PHP forum.

Yes, but according to someone`s reply PHP has got nothing to do with that, so I`ve decided to move this thread to another forum. I think Flash forum is the most suitable now.

yes.
if scripting is disabled:
make a 1x1 flash movie that uses geturl(...) to load another page.
if the user has flash - it forwards automatically.
if the user doesnt but the browser can auto-install, it will. (probably not if scripting is deactivated, but thats another story)
if he doesnt like flash, he will just see the page but won´t notice the 1x1 flash.

if scripting is enabled there is a more elegant solution which i dont have here right now (its 22pm here and i am about to leave). but the way was:
- javascript: set variable false
- vbscript: create flash object, this will succeed or fail. Set same Variable true
- javascript: check for netscape, if yes -> check navigator.plugins array for "Macromedia Flash..." (see yourself), set the same variable true

if variable then document.write(<your flash-code here>)
OR
if variable then window.location.href='...'

for further discussion of the latter, please post to the javascript forum.

This all depends on how detailed you want to go. The moock flash player inspector, or "moock fpi" is an all purpose, user configurable flash plugin/activex control detector, created by Colin Moock:

Colin Moock's flash detector

Check it out

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