Flash Player 5 detection check

[TiMuN]

Hi all .. I need a quick response on this ...

Would this script detect Flash Player 5 and do things accordingly?

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--

//Look for a version of Internet Explorer that supports ActiveX (i.e., one that's
//running on a platform other than Mac or Windows 3.1) or a browser that supports
//the plugin property of the navigator object and that has Flash Player 4.0 or 5.0
//installed.

if ((navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer" &&
navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Mac") == -1 &&
navigator.appVersion.indexOf("3.1") == -1) ||
navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash 4.0"] || navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash 5.0"]){
window.location='home.htm';
}
else {
window.location='home2.htm';
}

// -->
</SCRIPT>

It is supposed to work for Flash Player 4, but .... ¿?¿?

Thanx in advance

[UpNorth]

What I believe (and I'm no javascipt expert or anything) that this script does is send flash 4 users to home.htm and flash 5 users to home2.htm.

[TiMuN]

hi UpNorth ..

no, not really. What the script tries to do is check whether you are running an automaticlly upgradable Internet Explorer, OR, if you have a browser with the property 'Shockwave Flash 4.0' OR 'Shockwave Flash 5.0' and shows 'home.htm .... and if you have other versions of the plugin or none, you are redirected to a secondary page, called home2.htm

It worked fine detecting Flash 4 in your browser, but it doesn't detect Flash 5, and it seems to me that, the plugin name is not 'shockwave Flash 5.0' anymore .. so the script is useless ..

I have found a working one at macromedia.com, at http://www.macromedia.com/support/fl...oyment_readme/ which solves the problems related to flash publishing, but it uses Visual Basic scripting, which my client doesn't accept.

So i'm still in the same problem .. what should i do?

regards
TiMuN