# Keeping a movie accessible to non-Flashers

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keeping-a-movie-accessible-to-non-flashers/185612>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [April 14, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keeping-a-movie-accessible-to-non-flashers/185612 "2006-04-14T17:35:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Anax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@Anax](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Anax)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keeping-a-movie-accessible-to-non-flashers/185612/1 "2006-04-14T17:35:17Z")

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Hia,

I love the idea of just clicking and watching a video with a tad of Flash animation surrounding, but when I tested my embedded idea on a non-Flash old machine (Windows 95) it was very messy. My project is to help socially deprived people get literate so I don’t want to assume users have Flash or the inclination to download it.

I’m thinking of keeping homepage straight html with a ‘watch movie’ link, then with an alert if they Flash or not (not too sure how I’d do this yet). Is there a better solution by which I can detect if user has Flash and if so automatically play movie, otherwise offer some Windows media player alternative.

[www.readingbus.co.uk](http://www.readingbus.co.uk)

any ideas much appreciated,

anax

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**Author:** ![rhamej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@rhamej](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rhamej)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 4:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keeping-a-movie-accessible-to-non-flashers/185612/2 "2006-04-16T16:52:39Z")

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[http://www.moock.org/webdesign/flash/detection/moockfpi/](http://www.moock.org/webdesign/flash/detection/moockfpi/)  
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