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vladanik · 03-09-2003, 12:49 AM

Hi,

As you all know, when you insert the code for
a flash movie, IE automatically downloads
Flash player if the visitor doesn't have it installed,
or if he has a version earlier than the one written
in the codebase atribute.

How can I avoid automatic downloading of the flash player?
Is it enough to delete the OBJECT tag, that is, instead
of:

<object classid="clsid

27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" width="550" height="400" id="myMovieName">
<param name="movie" value="myFlashMovie.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF">
<embed src="myFlashMovie.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="550" height="400" name="myMovieName" align="" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
</embed>
</object>

to just use:

<embed src="myFlashMovie.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="550" height="400" name="myMovieName" align="" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
</embed>

I tried it on a few computers and it worked just fine.
What is your experience? Is this enough or is there
some other approach for avoiding automatic download?

03-09-2003, 12:49 AM	PM User \| #1
vladanik New Coder Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 11 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	How to avoid automatic download of Flash player Hi, As you all know, when you insert the code for a flash movie, IE automatically downloads Flash player if the visitor doesn't have it installed, or if he has a version earlier than the one written in the codebase atribute. How can I avoid automatic downloading of the flash player? Is it enough to delete the OBJECT tag, that is, instead of: <object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0" width="550" height="400" id="myMovieName"> <param name="movie" value="myFlashMovie.swf"> <param name="quality" value="high"> <param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF"> <embed src="myFlashMovie.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="550" height="400" name="myMovieName" align="" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"> </embed> </object> to just use: <embed src="myFlashMovie.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="550" height="400" name="myMovieName" align="" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"> </embed> I tried it on a few computers and it worked just fine. What is your experience? Is this enough or is there some other approach for avoiding automatic download?