"Ken Fine" <kenfine@u.washington.edu> wrote in message
news:dp8rch$9kq$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> I'm sure someone has already packaged this somehow and written about it,
> so I'm asking here before I re-invent the wheel.
>
> Flash 8 supports better typography. I want to supply better typography to
> Flash-8 capable users. But I don't want to nag people with Flash 7 and
> below for download of the player; I'd rather just supply them with a
> version-specific Flash file.
>
> What's the best / most reliable way to detect player version, and to fork
> them appropriately to a version-specific movie?
>
> What would be better is if Flash had an option to make just one movie,
> show enhanced typography if the player supported it and not show enhanced
> typography is the player did not support it. Developers could code to v7
> standards, only taking advantage of the text engine in v8 players.
>