Hi
Remember that FlashVars is dependent on the Flash Player version, it was only introduced in a release of FP 6.
I wrote this article last year when attempting to test the results of various detection methods. It worked ok up to Flash Player 6, not sure about 7 as it wasn't released back then.
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/techniques-unearthed
I found the Flash satay markup worked fine on every browser I tested on with every Flash player version I could find. Embed is dead, a relic from Netscape 4. Opera 7 and Mozilla support object far better than IE does. Their's heaps of discussions on this topic in the archive for this list.
The most important thing to do when providing content like Flash is to provide a plain text alternative, as per the WAI. If your data is sourced from an external data source, it's very easy to present the same data in SWF and in HTML format.
Cheers James
Ian Fenn wrote:
Hi Mark,
A bit late maybe but I recently did some browser testing on this: http://markl.f2o.org/experiments/flashvars/ http://markl.f2o.org/experiments/FlashTransparent/
Many thanks! Your results look similar to mine. I've been testing for two days. Aargh!
Unfortunately it seems the best solution is to use JavaScript to detect the existence (and correct version) of flash and then use document.write to deliver the appropriate object or embed. Only safari seems to have a problem.
All the best,
-- Ian
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