Cheking Flash and Quicktime

[b_ball_player9]

hey

im building a site and was just wondering how do i go about checking for flash and quicktime plugins on my splash screen, and letting the user know if they have it or not?

any help would be greatly appricted

[BroChris]

Macromedia and Apple both do the same thing, and I think it's about the best way to do it without getting into javascript. They simply make a movie using thier plugin, embed it, and it says, "If you can see this, then you have flash/quicktime installed." Makes sense to me.