I've just received a Flash object from a firm we contracted and want to
implement some plugin detection within the page. Before I go off and slam some
Javascipt I find somewhere out on the web that I hope will support the common
browsers now and into the hopefully distant future, I thought I'd see if DW had
something provided already. I knew there was a behavior called 'check plugin'
that I've never used....and it should work like seen here
[url]http://www.adesdesign.net/php/tutorials/dreamweaver/detectFP.php[/url] . Only....for
some odd reason, it doesn't recognize the Flash object given to me like all the
other objects on the page with respect to the Check Plugin action. So... I
went back to the internet and found
this....[url]http://sawmac.com/dwmx/behaviors/noflash.html[/url] .... which tells me that
it is a moot point, since the Macromedia DW 'from the box' behavior doesn't
support the 'check plugin' in the IE browser! Yikes! One last time...I went to
the web...and .. hey! ... found a new Macromedia Flash Detection Kit at
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/download/detection_kit[/url] ... and
installed the extension ... but, similar to the 'out of box check plugin
behavior', it doesn't offer the behavior (it's grayed out) for this Flash
object. The behavior's extension dialogue does appear when I reference any of
the other page objects. What gives??? The object delivered by the contractor
works great. I'm developing pages using DWMX 6.1. The flash object code
looks like this: <object classid='clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000'
codebase='http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#ve
rsion=6,0,29,0' width='550' height='400'> <param name='movie'
value='/nfg_meter.swf'> <param name='quality' value='high'> <embed
src='/nfg_meter.swf' quality='high'
pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer'
type='application/x-shockwave-flash' width='550' height='400'></embed>
</object>