# Flash version checking

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-version-checking/274840>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 5, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-version-checking/274840 "2008-11-05T16:47:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![onion](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/onion/32/3349_2.png) [@onion](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/onion)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-version-checking/274840/1 "2008-11-05T16:47:03Z")

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I am embedding flash but some people with older versions of flash cannot see the flash correctly. It works fine for people with Flash 8 and higher, but not for people with versions 5, 6, 7.  
I don’t understand why it doesn’t tell them to just upgrade their flash to the latest version?

If I change to use swfobject to embed my code, will I be able to stop people with flash 5, 6, or 7 from seeing my flash, and just display a message to them saying “upgrade you fools!”

thanks 🙂