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Browser Sniffer: Flash File

I have a page where I have a flash piece loaded into the page, if someone who is on a linux bos that doesn't support flash i would like to replace that "X" out flash object with an image.. Does anyone have any code to do so?

Thanks,
Natacha

COBOLdinosaur

At the place in the page where the flash or image goes use a scriptlike this to dynamically write the page:

<script type="text/javascript">

</script>

ngjones

ASKER

That doesn't seem to work if I follow what you said to do:

<script type="text/javascript">

</script>

COBOLdinosaur

Yeah I can see two things. My original had a typo. I put : at the end of the write insted of ; and it looks like you have linefeeds in the string, Javascript treats end of line as end of command, so the code was invalid. Let's try it this way:

<script type="text/javascript">

</script>

ngjones

ASKER

It still doesn't work..

http://www.verari.com/test1.asp

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ngjones

ASKER

The flash file isn't showing up.. I added that extra statement...

http://www.verari.com/test1.asp

COBOLdinosaur

Okay what string does the alert display when you run with linux?

Cd&

ngjones

ASKER

It doesn't show up anything on either linux or windows.

COBOLdinosaur

Let's clean that up a little:

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="355" cellpadding="5" height="184">
<tr>

<td valign="top" height="174"><font class="text">
<p align="left"><script type="text/javascript">
nav=navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
alert(nav);
if (nav.indexOf("inux")!=-1)
{
document.write('<img src="http://www.verari.com/images/welcome2.jpg">');
}
else
{
str='<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" ';
str+='codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/';
str+='swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"'; width="362" height="175" id="intro" ';
str+='align="middle">';

str+='<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />';
str+='<param name="movie" value="intro.swf" />';
str+='<param name="quality" value="high" />';
str+='<param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" />';
str+='<embed src="intro.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#000000" ';
str+='width="362" height="175" name="intro" align="middle"';
str+=' allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"';
str+=' pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />';
str+='</object>';
document.write(str);
}
</script></p></td>
</tr>
</table>

That looks a little better.

Cd&