Coldfusion – detecting Flash vs HTML5

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July 27, 2012
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Hi all – I have a dumb question – I’m not the worlds best scripter…

I’ve got a ColdFusion page, with an element in it that is either flash, or HTML5.

I need a way to detect what is happening client-side and push the client to either the Flash element, or the HTML element (or a s “you’re WAY behind the times” element if neither).

I’ve found, and used, modernizr, but it does things the wrong way round for me. I need to direct my clients to flash 1^st, then HTML5, then the sorry page. Modernizr only gives me HTML 5 first then Flash, and this isn’t working for me. the flash element is the preferred element. I’ve screwed around with trying to “swap out” modernizr, but my glasses aren’t thick enough.

Thus, I (roughly) need something that does this:

Direct them to flash page

Direct them to HTML 5 page

So, how is life in the 18^th century?

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Help, please.. It does not have to be CFM, it can be a JavaScript or anything.

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BKBK

Community Expert

What about just serving the file using the cfmediaplayer tag, but without the type attribute.

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ACS LLC

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In my case I'm not playing a video, I have a peel ad that runs in the corner of the page, currently in flash, but I just got a Jquery version running that does not need flash, however it does not look quite as good so I want to display the flash whenever I can, however it looks like that is going to be a problem so I think I'll just go with the Jquery on all hits

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ACS LLC

Inspiring

Did you ever find a solution to this?

I posted a similar issue, I can't find any way to detect flash in CF. There must be a way with them both being Adobe products

Thanks

Mark