# Flash Detection Kit not working on Mac?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-detection-kit-not-working-on-mac/178403
**Category:** web dev
**Created:** [February 10, 2006, 6:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-detection-kit-not-working-on-mac/178403 "2006-02-10T06:56:00Z")
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### Author: ![s\_newave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@s\_newave](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/s_newave)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2006, 6:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-detection-kit-not-working-on-mac/178403/1 "2006-02-10T06:56:00Z")

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Hi,  
Can anyone tell me why this site [www.thepapalegroup.com](http://www.thepapalegroup.com) isnt working with IE or Safari on a Mac? Basically just an image i have on the index page shows up nothing else, no flash nor any get flash html? And when i right click it has “Movie not loaded” grayed out? Here is the code im using below:

\<html lang=“en”\>  
\<head\>  
\<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=iso-8859-1” /\>  
\<script language=“JavaScript” type=“text/javascript”\>  
\<!–  
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------  
// Globals  
// Major version of Flash required  
var requiredMajorVersion = 8;  
// Minor version of Flash required  
var requiredMinorVersion = 0;  
// Minor version of Flash required  
var requiredRevision = 0;  
// the version of javascript supported  
var jsVersion = 1.0;  
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------  
// --\>  
\</script\>  
\<script language=“VBScript” type=“text/vbscript”\>  
\<!-- // Visual basic helper required to detect Flash Player ActiveX control version information  
Function VBGetSwfVer(i)  
on error resume next  
Dim swControl, swVersion  
swVersion = 0

set swControl = CreateObject(“ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.” + CStr(i))  
if (IsObject(swControl)) then  
swVersion = swControl.GetVariable("$version")  
end if  
VBGetSwfVer = swVersion  
End Function  
// --\>  
\</script\>  
\<script language=“JavaScript1.1” type=“text/javascript”\>  
\<!-- // Detect Client Browser type  
var isIE = (navigator.appVersion.indexOf(“MSIE”) != -1) ? true : false;  
var isWin = (navigator.appVersion.toLowerCase().indexOf(“win”) != -1) ? true : false;  
var isOpera = (navigator.userAgent.indexOf(“Opera”) != -1) ? true : false;  
jsVersion = 1.1;  
// JavaScript helper required to detect Flash Player PlugIn version information  
function JSGetSwfVer(i){  
// NS/Opera version \>= 3 check for Flash plugin in plugin array  
if (navigator.plugins != null && navigator.plugins.length \> 0) {  
if (navigator.plugins[“Shockwave Flash 2.0”] || navigator.plugins[“Shockwave Flash”]) {  
var swVer2 = navigator.plugins[“Shockwave Flash 2.0”] ? " 2.0" : “”;  
var flashDescription = navigator.plugins[“Shockwave Flash” + swVer2].description;  
descArray = flashDescription.split(" “);  
tempArrayMajor = descArray[2].split(”.");  
versionMajor = tempArrayMajor[0];  
versionMinor = tempArrayMajor[1];  
if ( descArray[3] != “” ) {  
tempArrayMinor = descArray[3].split(“r”);  
} else {  
tempArrayMinor = descArray[4].split(“r”);  
}  
versionRevision = tempArrayMinor[1] \> 0 ? tempArrayMinor[1] : 0;  
flashVer = versionMajor + “.” + versionMinor + “.” + versionRevision;  
} else {  
flashVer = -1;  
}  
}  
// MSN/WebTV 2.6 supports Flash 4  
else if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf(“webtv/2.6”) != -1) flashVer = 4;  
// WebTV 2.5 supports Flash 3  
else if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf(“webtv/2.5”) != -1) flashVer = 3;  
// older WebTV supports Flash 2  
else if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf(“webtv”) != -1) flashVer = 2;  
// Can’t detect in all other cases  
else {

flashVer = -1;  
}  
return flashVer;  
}  
// When called with reqMajorVer, reqMinorVer, reqRevision returns true if that version or greater is available  
function DetectFlashVer(reqMajorVer, reqMinorVer, reqRevision)  
{  
reqVer = parseFloat(reqMajorVer + “.” + reqRevision);  
// loop backwards through the versions until we find the newest version  
for (i=25;i\>0;i–) {  
if (isIE && isWin && !isOpera) {  
versionStr = VBGetSwfVer(i);  
} else {  
versionStr = JSGetSwfVer(i);  
}  
if (versionStr == -1 ) {  
return false;  
} else if (versionStr != 0) {  
if(isIE && isWin && !isOpera) {  
tempArray = versionStr.split(" “);  
tempString = tempArray[1];  
versionArray = tempString .split(”,");  
} else {  
versionArray = versionStr.split(".");  
}  
versionMajor = versionArray[0];  
versionMinor = versionArray[1];  
versionRevision = versionArray[2];

versionString = versionMajor + “.” + versionRevision; // 7.0r24 == 7.24  
versionNum = parseFloat(versionString);  
// is the major.revision \>= requested major.revision AND the minor version \>= requested minor  
if ( (versionMajor \> reqMajorVer) && (versionNum \>= reqVer) ) {  
return true;  
} else {  
return ((versionNum \>= reqVer && versionMinor \>= reqMinorVer) ? true : false );  
}  
}  
}  
}  
// --\>  
\</script\>  
\</head\>  
\<body bgcolor="#000000"\>  
\<table width=“900” height=“100%” border=“0” align=“center” cellpadding=“5” cellspacing=“5”\>  
\<tr\>  
\<td valign=“middle” align=“center”\>  
\<script language=“JavaScript” type=“text/javascript”\>  
\<!–  
// Version check based upon the values entered above in “Globals”  
var hasReqestedVersion = DetectFlashVer(requiredMajorVersion, requiredMinorVersion, requiredRevision);

// Check to see if the version meets the requirements for playback  
if (hasReqestedVersion) { // if we’ve detected an acceptable version  
var oeTags = ‘\<object classid=“clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000”’

- ‘width=“900” height=“600”’
- 'codebase="[http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab"\>’](http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab%22%3E')
- ‘\<param name=“movie” value=“intro-typewriter.swf” /\>\<param name=“quality” value=“high” /\>\<param name=“bgcolor” value="#000000" /\>’
- '\<embed src=“example.swf” quality=“high” bgcolor="#000000" ’
- ‘width=“900” height=“600” name=“intro-typewriter” aligh=“middle”’
- ‘play=“true”’
- ‘loop=“false”’
- ‘quality=“high”’
- ‘allowScriptAccess=“sameDomain”’
- ‘type=“application/x-shockwave-flash”’
- 'pluginspage="[http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"\>’](http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer%22%3E')
- ‘\</embed\>’
- ‘\</object\>’;  
document.write(oeTags); // embed the Flash Content SWF when all tests are passed  
} else { // flash is too old or we can’t detect the plugin  
var alternateContent = ‘\<font face=“Verdana” color="#FFFFFF"\>In order to view this site you need Macromedia Flash Player 8.\<br\>\<br\>\<br\>’
- ‘\<a href=http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflash/\>Get Flash Player 8\</a\>\<br\>\<br\>\<br\>\<br\>\</font\>’;  
document.write(alternateContent); // insert non-flash content  
}  
// --\>  
\</script\>  
\<noscript\>  
// Provide alternate content for browsers that do not support scripting  
// or for those that have scripting disabled.  
\<font face=“Verdana” color="#FFFFFF"\>In order to view this site you need Macromedia Flash Player 8.\<br\>\<br\>\<br\>  
\<a href=http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflash/\>Get Flash Player 8\</a\>\<br\>\<br\>\<br\>\</font\>  
\</noscript\>  
\<br\>  
\<img src=“images/pde-white-logo.gif”\> \</td\>  
\</tr\>  
\</table\>  
\</body\>  
\<div align=“center”\>\</div\>  
\</html\>

I pretty much copy and paste from the flash detection kit i found on this site. Any ideas? Its working great on PC’s though.  
thx
