<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">It's not there because the plugin code would never be written to the page unless they already had the required plugin version.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If they have flash, they see the flash, if they don't have flash, they see your alternate content.</DIV><DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>My advice would be to put a link in your alternate content that links them to a special 'upgrade' page similar to adobe's upgrade page that gives instructions on how to install the plugin (and all the dialogs they have to click to accept it and all that). Of course you could also just link to the adobe site since they already have all that info up there..</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Nov 16, 2006, at 1:15 PM, Kareem Kouddous wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Is there a way to set the codebase attribute using SWFObject? I had a look at the source code and this attribute is not being set anywhere and it can't be passed as a parameter as it is an attribute directly on the object tag. I would like to use this to trigger automatic installation/upgrade in IE using Active X.<DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Lucida Grande; ">Kareem Kouddous</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Lucida Grande; ">.TV Technologies</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Lucida Grande; ">137 Fifth Av, 9th Floor</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Lucida Grande; ">New York, NY 10010, USA</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Lucida Grande; ">email: <A href="mailto:kareem@dottvtech.com">kareem@dottvtech.com</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Lucida Grande; ">office (USA): +1 646-202-9494</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Lucida Grande; ">cell (USA): +1 917-582-9178</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Lucida Grande; ">fax (USA): +1 646-349-3449 </SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Lucida Grande"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Lucida Grande; ">office (Cairo): +20 (0)10-5448787</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">SWFObject mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com">SWFObject@lists.deconcept.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com">http://lists.deconcept.com/listinfo.cgi/swfobject-deconcept.com</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>