Flash detect and PNG Transparency

conflicting javascripts

[john_m]

Hi,
I have a PNG transparency script and a flash detect script. The Flash script is in conflict with the PNG transparency JS file, as the PNG transparency works only when the Flash script is removed. The Flash script consists of a JS file and some script in the HTML:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
if (flash.ver[6]) { var oeTags = '<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="swf/intro.swf" width="700" height="375">'
+ '<param name="movie" value="swf/intro.swf" />'
+ '<param name="menu" value="false" />'
+ '</object>';
document.write(oeTags); }
else if (flash.installed) { var oldFlash = '<img src="images/oldflash.gif" alt="Old version of Flash plug-in installed. Please update by clicking here" />';
document.write(oldFlash); }
else { var noFlash = '<img src="images/noflash.gif" alt="Flash plug-in not installed. To view the intro sequence, you will need to install it by clicking here" />';
document.write(noFlash.htm); }
//-->
</script>

Is there something wrong with the syntax? I have tried a different PNG transparency script and it still doesn't work.

Thanks!

[Bernard Marx]

> if (flash.ver[6])

Is this how you reference a Flash object?
Does the variable, flash, hold a reference to anything?

> document.write(noFlash.htm);

You can't write a file using doc.write.
This will cause an error anyway, since there is no defined variable, noFlash, (and thus it can't have a property, htm).

[john_m]

Thanks for pointing the .htm error out! It still doesn't change the page display.
> if (flash.ver[6]) is the way the script references the Flash version. The lowest required version is 6, if it's an old version, the script goes to (flash.installed) and if there is no plug-in, it goes to else.

[john_m]

Actually, I think that did resolve it- the error was actually an incorrect reference to a SWF. Dunno why it affected the PNG script, but it works now. Thanks a lot!