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Chapter 1. EXT: Flash detection

Extension Key: rlmp_flashdetection

Copyright 2006, André Steiling, <steiling@pilotprojekt.com>

This document is published under the Open Content License

available from http://www.opencontent.org/opl.shtml

The content of this document is related to TYPO3

- a GNU/GPL CMS/Framework available from www.typo3.com

1.1. Introduction

What does it do?

This extension combines several features for integrating flash movies into your TYPO3 website. The key features are:

  1. Flash player detection routine

  2. The ability to provide a static picture as a fallback solution if no or wrong flash player is available

  3. Support for external XML files (the path is accessable from the Flash movie via an external variable)

  4. Field for additional parameters

  5. Parameters for hide menu, width, height etc.

  6. Accesable as a frontend plugin, directly via typoscript or for usage in your own extension

Screenshots

The following screenshot shows an example of a flash record which can be used on multiple places of your website.

Credits / Terms and conditions

This extension USED the moock flash player inspector written by colin moock!

Since version 1.1.0 the extension uses a newer flash detection routine – the „Detection Kit“ from Adobe. This feature was brought to you by Jose Antonio Guerra <jaguerra@icti.es>. The following changes are made:

  1. Updated flash code detection, now using http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/download/detection_kit/.

  2. Moock FPI was used before, but it's obsolete until now.

  3. Flash detection routine has no upper version limit any more.

  4. Most of the Javascript code is included from an external file.

  5. New code rids over the flash plugin patent problem in new versions of IE.