Testing for Flash capability on the server-side

Question

I\'m developing an ASP.NET website that will need to support non-flash users.

In case the user\'s browser doesn\'t support Flash, or they have Flash disabled, I\'d l

Answer 1

There certainly are some reasons that you want to detect flash on the server side. We need certain parts to be completely replaced or left out on a page if flash is not available. Its not as simple as displaying alternate content in the exact place where the flash was. We need to replace html structure further up. And we need to do that even if Javascript is not available. It is not really an option to let javascript rewrite the page IF Flash is available and we can't just redirect to another page.