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if Flash not installed?

Hello,

I have a web site which uses Javascript and soundManager2 which uses
Flash to play mp3 files

What is the best way to deal with a user whose PC browser does not
have Flash installed?

Thanks

Geoff
Jun 27 '08 #1
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On May 13, 9:53*pm, Geoff Cox <g...@freeuk.notcomwrote:
Hello,

I have a web site which uses Javascript and soundManager2 which uses
Flash to play mp3 files

What is the best way to deal with a user whose PC browser does not
have Flash installed?
One or both of:

Include a polite message pointing out that to hear your sounds they
should install and/or enable Flash and enable JavaScript.

Link to the MP3 files so that they can play them in the player of
their choice

Steve
Jun 27 '08 #2
On Tue, 13 May 2008 14:08:30 -0700 (PDT), Steve Pugh
<st**********@gmail.comwrote:
>On May 13, 9:53*pm, Geoff Cox <g...@freeuk.notcomwrote:
>Hello,

I have a web site which uses Javascript and soundManager2 which uses
Flash to play mp3 files

What is the best way to deal with a user whose PC browser does not
have Flash installed?

One or both of:

Include a polite message pointing out that to hear your sounds they
should install and/or enable Flash and enable JavaScript.

Link to the MP3 files so that they can play them in the player of
their choice

Steve
Thanks Steve - I guess the first option!

Cheers

Geoff
Jun 27 '08 #3
Geoff Cox <gc**@freeuk.notcomwrites:
On Tue, 13 May 2008 14:08:30 -0700 (PDT), Steve Pugh
<st**********@gmail.comwrote:
On May 13, 9:53*pm, Geoff Cox <g...@freeuk.notcomwrote:
Hello,

I have a web site which uses Javascript and soundManager2 which uses
Flash to play mp3 files

What is the best way to deal with a user whose PC browser does not
have Flash installed?
One or both of:

Include a polite message pointing out that to hear your sounds they
should install and/or enable Flash and enable JavaScript.

Link to the MP3 files so that they can play them in the player of
their choice

Steve

Thanks Steve - I guess the first option!
Why? My mp3 player is much better than anything Flash comes up with. Why
would you want me to use an inferior product? Or to enable a dangerous
scripting language?

Pierre
--
Pierre Jelenc
The Gigometer www.gigometer.com
The NYC Beer Guide www.nycbeer.org
Jun 27 '08 #4
Pierre Jelenc wrote:
Geoff Cox <gc**@freeuk.notcomwrites:
>On Tue, 13 May 2008 14:08:30 -0700 (PDT), Steve Pugh
<st**********@gmail.comwrote:
>>On May 13, 9:53 pm, Geoff Cox <g...@freeuk.notcomwrote:
What is the best way to deal with a user whose PC browser does not
have Flash installed?
One or both of:

Include a polite message pointing out that to hear your sounds they
should install and/or enable Flash and enable JavaScript.

Link to the MP3 files so that they can play them in the player of
their choice
[...]
Thanks Steve - I guess the first option!

Why? My mp3 player is much better than anything Flash comes up with. Why
would you want me to use an inferior product?
Good point.
Or to enable a dangerous scripting language?
Please stop distributing FUD. Client-side scripting is not any more
dangerous than the security leaks in the environment it runs in are. For
example, if JScript poses a danger in IE/MSHTML, it is MSHTML's fault which
provides the necessary API, particularly IE's borken insufficient security
model, not JScript's.
F'up2 cljs

PointedEars
--
realism: HTML 4.01 Strict
evangelism: XHTML 1.0 Strict
madness: XHTML 1.1 as application/xhtml+xml
-- Bjoern Hoehrmann
Jun 27 '08 #5

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