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November 8th, 1999, 07:56 AM

Damian

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How can I detect if a plug-in is in the client-browser??

I need to change between a gif image an a flash object, in order the flash plug-in is oris not in the client browser

Thanks!

November 8th, 1999, 12:20 PM

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This will detect if flash is present in Netscape but for IE things work differerntly for detection since they use Active X. Here is for NS:

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Detecting Plugins</TITLE>

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JAVASCRIPT TYPE="TEXT/JAVASCRIPT">


</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>

You can also use navigator.plugins["name of plugin"] to detect the plugin but you need to know the name of the plugin. Still this only works in NS. Cant help you on IE.

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November 9th, 1999, 03:43 PM

cruzan

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At http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/javascript/code_library/
you can find a nice vbscript that checks out plugins (flash, shockwave, real, quicktime) and then you can redirect or do a document.write(). This one works very well with IE5 and no complaints yet from IE4 folks. I dont know about Netscape but it does have coding to check Netscape so assume it works (if statement).

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