Hi all, I have no experience with Flash whatsoever and one of my interns has made a nice flash picture for my site. I want to use that picture, but what should I do to cater for those browsers / computers that don't / don't want to support Flash? - I suppose an alternative gif of jpg is the solution; but what code would pull it out for non-Flash visitors?

It should be built in to the embeded flash - typically if the browser doesnt display flash (has no support for it) it shows a link that says "your browser does not support flash, click here to get it" or something like that. That is pretty standard.

Hmmm, thanks; yes, I'm studying the <embed> and <noembed> tags :)

For example:

<object classid="clsid:SOME-CLASS-ID-HERE" codebase="https://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="568" height="161">
<param name="movie" value="FILE NAME">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<embed src="FILE NAME" quality="high" pluginspage="https://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="568" height="161"></embed>
</object>

HostCheap.us.com, thanks, but from what I can understand your code only prompts the user to download Flash. I prefer to assume that if the user does not have Flash, he is not going to get it to see my website, and I am looking for ways of displaying alternate still images,

Then change the

<embed src="FILE NAME" quality="high" pluginspage="https://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="568" height="161"></embed>


portion. That is what is called when it doesnt support flash - change the src= to show the picture, and leave the plugins part out.

Great; thanks. I will try that.