Update to IE Mobile Adobe Flash support

iemoblog — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 21:56:00 GMT

We recently found out that the Adobe Flash player 7 for Pocket PC supports a direct call into the player by an activeX object via JavaScript. This opens up a direct way for websites to verify if IE Mobile browsers have Adobe Flash installed and even its version.

The activeX object only takes two lines of code. See example below.

<html>

<head>

<title>Flash Alert</title>

</head>

<body>

axo = new ActiveXObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash");

axo.GetVariable("$version");

alert(axo.GetVariable("$version"));

</body>

</html>

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Update to IE Mobile Adobe Flash support