Flash - CSS - DIVs and Alternate Content

[FlashUser38]

Hi everyone,

This is my first post, so I will try to be "clear" -- LOL
I have a site with lots of flash content that uses the embed method to show my flash movies in each pages.

Each movie (within each page) is actually also contained in a div of its own.

So for example, I have:
<div id="Flash-movie">

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
codebase=
"http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0"
width="500" height="700" id="blabla" align=
"left"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">
<param name="movie" value="blabla.swf">
<param name="quality" value="Best">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<embed src="blabla.swf" quality="Best" bgcolor=
"#ffffff" width="500" height="700" name="blabla"
align="middle" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" type=
"application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage=
"http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" menu="false"></object></div>

NOW...here is what I am trying to accomplish so that non flash supporting browsers -- aka iOS...
shows something else based on whether or not Flash player is installed. What I am thinking is that if there is no flash, Hide Div Id Flash-movie and show Div Id No-Flash-Movie.

And am not sure at all how to do this... anyone can help me here?

Thanks!

[rdoyle720]

The way I'd recommend would be to use SWFObject or a similar Javascript embedding method. The page starts with your alternative content, and the Flash movie is only added if they have the right version of Flash.

http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/documentation (look at dynamic publishing method about halfway down the page)

[FlashUser38]

The way I'd recommend would be to use SWFObject or a similar Javascript embedding method. The page starts with your alternative content, and the Flash movie is only added if they have the right version of Flash.

http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/documentation (look at dynamic publishing method about halfway down the page)

Yes, I know about this method, the problem is that I have 1000s of pages which use an <embed> tag

[rdoyle720]

Well SWFObject has functions for things like:

swfobject.hasFlashPlayerVersion(versionStr)
swfobject.getFlashPlayerVersion()

You could use it to detect whether they have the plug-in and show/hide the appropriate stuff.

http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/api

[Kozirtur]

Yes,I see.This is very important.