Current JavaScript detection scripts fall short when it comes to automatically testing whether a client's Web browser has QuickTime or other browser plug-ins installed and working. A different and more reliable approach to writing a plug-in detection script is to use an object-based sniffer. This project shows you how to make a very solid and simple QuickTime sniffer using a small QuickTime movie with an embedded URL and an HTML page with a refresh meta tag.
This site, created by one of the authors, uses a modified version of this technique to detect the Flash plug-in.
Topics covered: adding QT movies, sniffer object properties, embedding URLs, Meta tags, modifications for Flash SWF object sniffer.
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