detecting plugins (small code sample inc)

Mark Perry posted this at 15:30 — 9th December 1999.

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Joined: Oct 1999

I am trying to detect what plugins a browser as : The following code works fine in Naviagator and "should" work fine in explorer - does anyone have an idea why not and what I can do to fix the prob'

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Got Flash?</TITLE>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JAVASCRIPT TYPE="TEXT/JAVASCRIPT">
<!-- Hide script from older browsers
hasFlash = false
for (i=0; i<navigator.plugins.length; i++) { alert("plugin")
if (navigator.plugins[i].name.indexOf("Shockwave") >= 0) {
hasFlash = true
}
}

// End hiding script from older browsers -->
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR=WHITE>
<H2>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JAVASCRIPT TYPE="TEXT/JAVASCRIPT">
<!-- Hide script from older browsers

if (hasFlash) {
document.write("You have Flash, you lucky person, you!")
}
else {
document.write("Sorry, you don't have Flash.")
}

// End hiding script from older browsers -->
</SCRIPT>
</H2>
</BODY>
</HTML>

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