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Re: Advice for designing sites with Flash?
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Originally Posted by JohnBoucher
Good web design practices have you designing for and testing with different browsers, plugins and connection speeds. If your pages break for any reason , your visitors will leave in a "flash".

You can build flash detection into your pages and redirect to a non-flash page for users that don't have or don't want the plugins. Yes, there are people that won't or can't enable plugins either because of security concerns, or slow connections.

Google flash page redirection for ideas.
Team 1657 from Isreal has a Javascript popup that comes up as soon as you load their page that allows you to choose whether you would like to view their flash site or their HTML site.
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