tedster - 12:54 pm on Mar 16, 2001 (gmt 0)

As far as I know, if you want to detect the presence of a Flash 3 player, and up, you need to go the route you described, and wrap your EMBED tags within a set of OBJECT tags.

I've just been reading up on this a bit, as I wade into the Flash-y waters. It seems that if you want to detect Flash 4 up, there is a non-JavaScript method. This involves embedding information in the Flash 4 file itself.

There's a lot of technical information accesible on the MacroMedia site [macromedia.com]. After studying for a while, I came the conclusion that there is no short and sweet method.

But the next time I see a Flash banner ad, I'm going to try to grab that code.