Swapping out Flash header for iPhone viewers?

[Sky Captain]

I'm designing a website with a few flash elements, including the header on some pages.

Obviously, these won't show on the iPhone and similar devices. What I'd like is a piece of "magic code" to use so the flash elements get swapped out for static JPG or GIF images.

Is this possible, or just wishful thinking?

[danners02]

use swfobject to place the flash:
deconcept You’ve got your good thing, and I’ve got mine SWFObject: Javascript Flash Player detection and embed script

[seopo]

Flash 10.1 will work on the iPhone and will be released before the end of this year.

[Sky Captain]

Thanks, I followed the links to this tutorial:

Providing alternative content for SWF files | Adobe Developer Connection

I'll try it out and report back.

[Sky Captain]

Okay, I managed to make it work.

The adobe code did have a problem in firefox, safari, and chrome, though. I ended up with a space under my headers -- and my design needed elements to touch each other.

My hacky solution was to put a background image in the surrounding table. So now at least the space is filled in with a black image.

[Bernd]

did have a problem in firefox, safari, and chrome

Try this:

<object data="/foo/foo.swf" id="foo_flash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" title="foo title">
   <param name="movie" value="/foo/foo.swf" />
   <param name="bgcolor" value="#123456" />
   <img src="/pics/foo.jpg" id="foo_img" alt="foo title" />
</object>