Currently I use the Flash deployment kit by Macromedia to detect Flash player 6, for my Flash projects.

But the .js file is 17 KB, the .vbs 2 KB. Users with low bandwidth connection will have to load for another 4 seconds before seeing anything of the Flash movie.

So detect yes or no? Many sites (even of mayor design companies) don't have detection at all. The just rely on the automatic update feature of MS Internet Explorer. Isn't this enough?

What do you think?