Up till recently I’ve been putting my Flash content in tables that have been centered.
After using the Flash detection template html file that Flash 8 generates I can no longer use my method of centering. Is there method of centering my Flash content without using some radical CSS coding?
Here’s the html code for my index file:
<!-- saved from url=(0013)about:internet -->
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>navigation</title>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Globals
// Major version of Flash required
var requiredMajorVersion = 8;
// Minor version of Flash required
var requiredMinorVersion = 0;
// Revision 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;
}
// If called with no parameters this function returns a floating point value
// which should be the version of the Flash Player or 0.0
// ex: Flash Player 7r14 returns 7.14
// If 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 );
}
}
}
return (reqVer ? false : 0.0);
}
// -->
</script>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#666666">
<!--url's used in the movie-->
<a href="http://www.suniljohn.com/index.html"></a>
<!--text used in the movie-->
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
var hasRightVersion = DetectFlashVer(requiredMajorVersion, requiredMinorVersion, requiredRevision);
if(hasRightVersion) { // if we've detected an acceptable version
var oeTags = '<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"'
+ 'width="712.5" height="590"'
+ 'codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab">'
+ '<param name="movie" value="navigation.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#cccccc" />'
+ '<embed src="navigation.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#cccccc" '
+ 'width="712.5" height="590" name="navigation" align="middle"'
+ 'play="true"'
+ 'loop="false"'
+ 'quality="high"'
+ 'allowScriptAccess="sameDomain"'
+ 'type="application/x-shockwave-flash"'
+ 'pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">'
+ '<\/embed>'
+ '<\/object>';
document.write(oeTags); // embed the flash movie
} else { // flash is too old or we can't detect the plugin
var alternateContent = 'Alternate HTML content should be placed here.'
+ 'This content requires the Macromedia Flash Player.'
+ '<a href=http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflash/>Get Flash</a>';
document.write(alternateContent); // insert non-flash content
}
// -->
</script>
<noscript>
<p align="center"><img src="noflashcontent.jpg" width="713" height="590"></p>
<p align="center">This content requires the Macromedia Flash Player.
<a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflash/">Get Flash</a> </p>
</noscript>
</body>
</html>
