Kyle, Thank you for your thoughts.
In general I'd say I agree with you on the futility of prompting Flash installs to the hold-outs who do not have it and I will certainly pass that opinion along. Unfortunatley, I don't make the business requirements at my job. They are currently paying me to make our website not only prompt to upgrade to the latest version of Flash, but to also prompt if it is not installed. I would like to keep my job so I am doing the due dillegence of figuring out what that will take regardless of how silly it may seem :) As a developer, it does seem odd to me that the browsers most of my users are using have an automatic behavior to try and help them install Flash (which makes my job easy since I don't have to write a line of code for that to kick in). However the library I want to use to embed my content is supressing that behavior because it wants to makes decisions for me and my users (which is making my job hard again because I now need to artifically re-create that behavior). Don't take that personally, it's just the most straight foward way I can think to describe it. I guess my point is why should I re-invent a wheel that already exists? (create work arounds to prompt my user to install Flash) Also, in response to your question about what type of embedding I am using-- as stated in the original post I am using the jQuery.media plugin, which uses the dynamic method. It also means that if I want to significantly modify the way that SWFObject is called, then will need to modify the source of the media plugin (which will alienate me from future updates). I'll take a look at the code you suggested. I'll also try again to convince the powers that be that a simple alternative "please download flash" link will probably suffice for the 0.1% of people who see it. :) Thanks! ~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.
