Alternate image...

...if user does not have flash.

[estebones]

Hello all and godd morning to y'all:
I have a burning question,
Is there a way to display an alternate image when the user does not have flash player?
I use quite a bit of flash on my site and need to know if there is any way around the nice little red x non flash-flash-player users get.
I relize I could make a non flash version of my site but I was just wandering if this was a possibility?

I would tyhink it would be some simple codde that could be put along with the <object> tag but thats as far as I can think of, any help would be appreciated.
thanks,
esteban

[Stretch]

The method used on the Flash Satay page does this:

http*://www.alistapart.com/stories/flashsatay/

It also mentions that Macromedia do it using javascript.

Stretch

[estebones]

will look into it,
thanks,
esteban

[httpwebwitch]

You need a "flash sniffer".

The best one on the Net also happens to be free, it's called the Moock FPI, developed by Colin Moock.

Moock FPI
[moock.org...]

It can be configured in several ways. You can either show an alternate image, or redirect the user to a non-flash page, you can set the minimum version of the Flash player, so people with Flash 5 can look at your fancy actionscript game, but people with Flash 4 will be asked to upgrade...

I tested it on a whole bunch of browsers on many versions of Windows and Mac, and it works great.

enjoy.