On 28 Mar 2002, at 14:19, Andy Innes wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I am busy writing a web site with two versions of the homepage - one with an
> embedded flash image in a table cell, one with a jpeg in place of the flash
> file to degrade gracefully on Netscape and Opera.
> 
> My default page does a browser detect and sends msie 4 or later to the page
> with flash and all others to the one without (which displays correctly in NN
> 4.78 and Opera
> 
> The problem here is that OPERA IDENTIFIES ITSELF AS IE5.0 BY DEFAULT!
> 
> So - the script runs on Opera - detects ie5.0 - and sends Opera to the wrong
> page, Opera reads the embed tag and creates a 3-4px gap around the Flash
> file, thus breaking the table.
> 
> Can anyone think of a way around this?

Try this - put your image in the <.OBJECT> tag like thus:

<.object> <!-- attributes snipped for brevity -->
    <param name="movie" value="movie.swf" />
    <img src="image.gif" alt="image for flash-less users" />
<./object>

This way you only need one page and you won't have to rely on 
JavaScript detection.

Paul Wilson
webguroo(at)tampabay.rr.com

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