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Flash support does not consider IE Mobile or Pocket IE

by iemobua Dec 5, 2006 2:39AM PST

I am a Test Lead and Microsoft for IE Mobile and we noticed that your site has an issue with displaying FLASH correctly on PocketPC devices.
We discovered the issue in your Flash support JavaScript sniff here: http://www.cnet.com/html/ssa/js/CreateFlashCode.js

IE Mobile does not support VBScript but we do pass your UserAgent sniff. So the result is that Flash does not display.
We figured out a fix by adding an additional "else if" statement for IE Mobile on line 13.

else if (navigator.userAgent && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("CE")>=0
&& (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("Win") != -1)) {
MM_FlashCanPlay = true;
}

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Bottom line? A PDA is not a PC.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Dec 5, 2006 2:49AM PST

I'm just a person that writes apps on some PDAs and run into this at least weekly. There are quite a few people that expected these PDAs to be "PCs" that fit in your pocket. Nothing is farther from the truth.

And that Windows Mobile is nothing like Windows you run on your PC.

Let the healing begin?

Bob

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