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freddy_creo
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Run flash banner with out adobe flash installed?

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Hi,

It will be nice if I get some answers from you guys!Here is my problem

I need to display the animated banner in my frontpage of the site,I can do this but my only concern is the banner which will be working only if the visitor of the site has adobe flash player installed,is there are any other way to run my banner even if flash player is not installed?

Your thoughts on this will be really helpful !

Thanks in advance,

freddy
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Re: Run flash banner with out adobe flash installed?

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I author a ton of sites in Flash, and have to take this into consideration as well. Most browsers these days have Flash Player installed, but there are some older versions out there that unfortunately do not. My workaround is to create a page with the .swf and another version with a static image in the .swfs place. I tend to shy away from animated gifs, but sometimes you can create one that kind of mimmicks your Flash animation. You can include script in your Flash versioned page that will either redirect your viewer to the static page if no Flash Player is detected or can display a message directing them to Adobe's site to download the player. The download and install time for the player is minimal (two or three minutes) but there are some people who don't want to be put out. If you have Flash CS3/Dreamweaver CS3 or newer it will write the basic script for you, but you'll have to go in and change a few lines to suit your task.

Hope this helps -
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Re: Run flash banner with out adobe flash installed?

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Try putting a background image inside the <object> tags - I think I read somewhere that clients will show the image until/unless the flash is loaded.
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