After struggling to get a consistent and stable set up for 2 small flash movies, floated next to each other, in IE – I gave up trying to figure this one out. Let’s hope for better support in future versions….

I decided to stick with the page redirection – if flash is not found on the user machine and the browser will display a different page instead which replaces the 2 flash movies with static gifs – and add a browser detection script to re-direct IE onto this same page, avoiding the flash alignment problems.

Just to keep track of the scripts used and some resources…

flash detection scripts:

• Colin Moock MOOCK FPI [fLASH pLAYER iNSPECTOR]
  now no longer in development – I found this an excellent Flash detection script to use
  Colin points to the now more up-to-date flash detection from Adobe
• Adobe Flash Player Detection Kit
  available as download – the kit contains various methods of plugin detection and more with plenty of documentation

browser detection: