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May 12, 2001 Checking for the Minimum Player Version Tips: May 2001
Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
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In some of your applications you may need to use Flash Audio and JavaScript directly, without any prepackaged APIs such as FlashSound JavaScript API. You will enjoy more features, methods, and properties, but you'll have to take care of all the tiny details that are taken for granted when using FlashSound API.
One of these tiny details is checking for a minimum player version number. The
The first line checks if the sniffed browser is supported. Flash supports only Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. The second line checks for the plug-in version in Netscape Navigator. The third line checks for the ActiveX control version of Flash player. The minimum Flash player version is set inside the lower level functions, Flash_checkForPlugIn() and Flash_checkForActiveX().
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