joomla and flash
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- flyerdave
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As my site will only work if Flash is installed on a viewers computer and I am running a local community site, can i install an index page that could advise the viewer to install flash player? The problem here is ie6 and 7 as always!
Is there a way to turn off Flash on the site index page in Joomla?
What would be the best way to do this?
Any ideas how I could overcome this problem
thanks
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- Jamesso
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David,
You can specify an index.html page in your root directory with links that point to your index.php (main page) or a link to download flash. I'm not sure if it's possible to disable flash from showing on certain pages without removing the flash file itself.
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- Ragdata
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I'm not really sure there is a problem ...
There are really only 3 scenarios you're likely to encounter here:
1) A visitor hits your page and already has a flash player installed - no problem.
2) A visitor hits your site and hasn't installed a flash player yet, in which case the 'codebase' attribute of your OBJECT tag and the 'pluginspage' attribute of your EMBED tag contains the URL to download the flash player, and this will prompt the visitor to download and install the appropriate plugin - no problem.
3) Your visitor is a technophobe who has palpitations just sitting down at their keyboard and can't possibly be expected to do something as 'way out there' as install a plugin for their browser - in which case, your OBJECT tag tells them:
<object ... > <param ...> <embed ...></embed> If you really want to use this website, you'll get over your technophobia and install a flash player - otherwise, you're someone else's problem </object>
... no problem
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