You can use the Macromedia Flash deployment kit to post Flash Player (SWF) files to your Web site and control the experience of visitors who do not have the Flash Player installed in their browser.

The deployment kit contains a detection tool called the Macromedia Flash Dispatcher. It consists of several files that work together to detect whether a suitable version of Macromedia Flash Player is installed in a visitor's browser. You can then direct the visitor to the appropriate content based on that information. For example, if your movie requires version 6 of the Flash Player, you can direct visitors with the version 6 Flash Player to a URL that contains Flash content and send visitors who have an earlier version of the Flash Player to an HTML page that asks them to upgrade.

This document provides basic instructions about how to use the Flash deployment kit to post a Flash Player movie (SWF) to the Web. For more detailed information, see the Overview in the Macromedia Flash deployment kit documentation.

The Macromedia Flash deployment kit consists of the following:

	Macromedia Flash Dispatcher (Dispatcher.js, Dispatcher.vbs, detectFlash.swf)
	A set of HTML example pages that use the Dispatcher (enter.html, installFlash.html, upgradeFlash.html)
	An interactive demonstration of how the Dispatcher works with the sample pages (demo.html)
	Macromedia Flash Dispatcher Dreamweaver behavior

Creating an entry page

Creating install and upgrade pages

Placing the pages on a server

Author:	Jody Bleyle
Last updated:	8/30/00
Keywords:	cookie, deploy, detect, Dispatcher, Flash, MM_FlashDispatch, player, upgrade