The whole point of SWFObject is degrade nicely when someone doesn't have the required version of Flash. Express install is used when they have a version of Flash that is lower than the intended (and >=6.0.65). When Flash isn't there, then it shows the alternate content.
So the question to your marketing guys is: what do you really want to achieve? Do you want to show content to your web visitors, or do you want them to be driven away to download something before they can view anything on your site? Keep in mind that not all browsers can install a plugin seamlessly and users will have to download a file, close their browser, install the plugin and restart the browser. As a possible solution, you could do a little bastardization and put in a standard object/embed in your alt content <div> (maybe a really small / invisible swf), which would invoke the browser download prompt... This way you could still show the user some useful content in the alt div, which invoking the download prompt as well. Aran On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:55 PM, Brad Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > I apologize for what seems like such a simple question, but I've been > over the docs and Google for a day now and haven't found a thorough > answer. > I am using SWFObject 2.2 to embed Flash content via the jQuery.media > plugin on my site. I have the express installer enabled and it seems > to work well. (with the exception of the fact it's supposed to work > on Flash 6 and it didn't). > > My marketing people also want our site to activley prompt users to > download and install flash right there in the browser when they load > the page if NO Flash is installed. Not a link, mind you-- they want > the browser to automatically start downloading Flash once the user > approves, etc. > > I can't figure out how to do that. All I can get is for the > "alternative content" to display. For the life of me I can't find > anything in the docs or in my Google searches that explicitly state > whether this is possible. All I can seem to dredge up are endless > pages talking about the express installer (which only applies if you > have an earlier version of Flash installed). > > What's odd, is that when using other embedding methods (such as > jQuery.media's default embedding code, my browser (IE and FF) will > automatically prompt me (plugin required, etc), but as soon as I turn > on SWFObject, by browsers no longer automatically prompt and just sit > there dumbly. Is that intended behavior with SWFObject, to disable > the defaul browser behavior? Or perhaps SWFObject is noticing that > Flash isn't installed and isn't even trying to do the embed. > > Also, I do realize that less than 1% of computers these days don't > have flash, but we're just trying to be "customer centric" in case we > get one of those 1% > > Thanks in advance! > > ~Brad > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "SWFObject" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SWFObject" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/swfobject?hl=en.
