[SWFObject] Detect missing Flash Player and Auto-Install latest Flash Player

[Geoff Stearns]

expresinstall only works if you have flash player 6.0.65 already  
installed. if you don't have flash player at all, you have to go to  
adobe to get it or let the browser try to install it.



On Sep 21, 2006, at 7:54 AM, WASouthPNT at aol.com wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have been using SWFObject for months now.  But some of my clients  
> have always complained that my pages cannot detect missing Flash  
> Player and do a seemless install of the latest Flash Player.
>
> I have been searching the blogs and email lists and have looked at  
> ExpressInstall but that seems to address upgrading the Flash  
> Player.   My case is where there has never been a Flash Player on  
> the client machine.
>
> I apologize for my ignorance, can someone show me an example (if  
> one exists) that uses the SWFObject to Auto-Install the latest  
> Flash Player if one never existed.
>
> Again, my picky clients do not want to be redirected to Adobe  
> website and have to manually click around to install the player.   
> They want a seamless behind the scene solution that detects that  
> there is no player installed, then auto-installs the player and  
> then brings up the page normally as if the player was already  
> installed.
>
>
> Any help is much appreciated.
> -Wyatt
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