[SWFObject] Opera and Firefox

[Geoff Stearns]

well, that assumes that they know what 'adobe' is or what 'flash'  
even is.

i would imagine that to many (probably most) web users, seening that  
activex bar at the top of their browser would just automatically set  
of alarms. not to mention all the anti-spyware software out there  
these days.



On Aug 16, 2006, at 6:45 PM, Chris Colman wrote:

> as for the main question: I decided that showing the user a custom  
> message instead of just displaying the little puzzle piece was a  
> better user experience. which is why I direct people to go to the  
> adobe site. this way they don't need to install any activex  
> controls from your site that they might have trust issues with. or  
> try to install plugins that they aren't sure about - since there  
> are so many out there these days, will they really recognize and  
> trust the flash player?
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> I think most people would trust the Flash player. People who  
> wouldn’t trust the Flash player are probably the same people who  
> don’t trust cookies and javascript either so trying to provide them  
> with a satisfactory web experience is like trying to reason with a  
> 2 year old who doesn’t want to eat their greens.
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> On Aug 16, 2006, at 3:21 AM, Aran Rhee wrote:
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> Chris
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>
> quickly looking through the swfObject code, you can see that you  
> can set it as the last param in the constructor:
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> deconcept.SWFObject = function(swf, id, w, h, ver, c,  
> useExpressInstall, quality, xiRedirectUrl, redirectUrl, detectKey)
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> which means you should be able to do something like:
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> var so = new SWFObject("movie.swf", "mymovie", "200", "100", "7",  
> "#336699", false, "high", "", "", false);
> so.write("flashcontent");
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> I am actually unsure as what to pass in for the no value  
> xiRedirectUrl and redirectUrl values without testing it, but if it  
> is not an empty string (as above), then you should be able to pass  
> in null.
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> var so = new SWFObject("movie.swf", "mymovie", "200", "100", "7",  
> "#336699", false, "high", null, null, false);
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> Geoff, any quick clarification you can add to this?
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> Cheers,
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> Aran
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> From: swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com [mailto:swfobject- 
> bounces at lists.deconcept.com] On Behalf Of Chris Colman
> Sent: Wednesday, 16 August 2006 3:57 PM
> To: swfobject at lists.deconcept.com
> Subject: Re: [SWFObject] Opera and Firefox
>
> How do I get the effect of detectflash=false without having to make  
> sure the page was requested with the ?detectflash=false parameter?
>
>
>
> Chrisco
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