We have a working version of our site using the scriptxtra plugin.  However, we need to prompt users to download the scriptxtra msi to be able to run the application as intended.  Do you have any specific examples on how we would detect if the scriptxtra plugin is truly installed?

We dont want to necessarily install the plugin for all users, but the detection would be huge!

Thanks for any info.

Josh

Hi Josh

You needs to check if the plug-in is listed in navigator.plugins (an object provided by the host browser .. firefox/chrome etc) and if it isn't display a suitable UI or whatever.

Reference:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigatorPlugins.plugins

Note that there is a change in behaviour in Firefox 29 and later.

We now show one way to do this in our samples. Fire up (say) this one:

http://scriptxsamples.meadroid.com/Basic/basic/release/DOCTYPE

in Firefox and View Source to see that.