[Drawsing]

I am a Flash programmer/designer. Let's hear it for conservative Flash programmers! We are a rare breed! I went to the New York City Flashforward conference in 2000. It was a leftist/liberal compost heap.

Well designed Flash pages include flash detection that asks you politely if you would like to download the plugin or would you like to see the non-flash content. That being said...why not go ahead and download it? There is a lot of cool stuff being done in Flash.

[JimVT]

...asks you politely if you would like to download the plugin

Thanks for your response

Here's my perspective.

Yesterday, I went to 5 or more sites in a row with each one asking me ("politely") if I wanted to dl Macromedia or Flash Player or whatever.

Each time I clicked "NO".......only to go to the next page on the SAME site and be asked the same question again....TWICE!!

After 5x2 annoying questions I asked Macromedia (see above) how to get rid of the requests. They, in effect, said it's my problem.

As you can see from the (very good) responses to my post, I have received some excellent methods of solving the problem.

But it is not because of any help from Microsoft or Macromedia.

Internet users should not have to go to all this trouble to rid themselves of unwanted intrusions.

[Platod]

Do you consider ads coo stuff. That is why I use a popup stopper.