Comments on: Incomplete: Adobe’s “Best Practices for Flash Player Detection”

By: daniel

daniel — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:49:15 +0000

Im not sure if anyone else has experienced this, but if you move the javascript code out of the body tag and into a window.onload command, there is a flicker of the alt content before the Flash gets drawn. Any ideas?

By: aral

aral — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 12:01:47 +0000

Thanks for the tips, guys. Hadn’t seen Plugin Framework before. Having looked at it, I still prefer the simplicity and elegance of SWFObject.

By: JD

JD — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 13:31:40 +0000

“Plugin Framework” detects and embeds Quicktime, Flash, Windows Media, Acrobat, Java, etc…

They do have a stripped down version just for flash. I think this is by far the most thorough flash embedding script.

http://www.knallgrau.at/code/plugin_js/

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 31 May 2006 15:13:58 +0000

That’s strange – that best practices article was written months ago when Flash 8 was still in beta (and hardly anyone knew about FlashObject back then). Maybe they made some edits to it and that made it pop back up on the product notifier?

By: Jed Wood

Jed Wood — Wed, 31 May 2006 15:10:11 +0000

I’ll second UFO, though I continue to be somewhat ignorant of exactly what the differences between the two are. I’ll keep using UFO until somebody convinces me otherwise :)

By: bobby

bobby — Wed, 31 May 2006 12:40:10 +0000

UFO is another good alternative for embedding Flash movies into HTML pages: http://www.bobbyvandersluis.com/ufo/