html and flash

[t5pete]

Hello,
Im getting ready to post a site on the internet and am wondering...I've seen other flash sites and when you bring them up, the screen has a message asking if the viewer has flash plug in or if they want to view the html version. My question is: Do I have to somehow create this page? Or, will it just be blank? I realize more and more people have Flash players, but I would like them to be able to go and download a player.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
THANKS!!
t5

 

[oldnewbie]

If you use the Flash Publish feature to output your html (it is better to embed your movie in an html, rather than posting a direct link to it!), the following black & blue bold lines in the object & embed tags most usually detect the presence of the Flash player and even if it's the most recent version:

<OBJECT classid=&quot;clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000&quot;
codebase=&quot;

http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0

&quot;
WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300>
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE=&quot;your.swf&quot;> <PARAM NAME=loop VALUE=false> <PARAM NAME=menu VALUE=false> <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#999999> <EMBED src=&quot;your.swf&quot; loop=false menu=false quality=high bgcolor=#999999 WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=300 TYPE=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; PLUGINSPAGE=&quot;

http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

&quot;></EMBED>
</OBJECT>

If you're not using The Publish feature, you should add these lines in your html.

You could also use a search engine to find one of many detection scripts, but to my knowledge, most people use the above!

ldnewbie

 

[t5pete]

Thanks again for your help
Ive been using the Publish feature so I should be OK.
t5pete

 

[t5pete]

thanks a lot! t5