Flash Player detection fails with Shockwave Flash version >= 10

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  I had massive problems viewing Clinic 5136 .
  All that appeared was a message stating I needed a proper Flash player.
  Since I have the latest versin installed, that's just silly.
  
  I was able do dig into it using a JavaScript debugger.
  
  The following code in flash.js fails, as with Flash versions bigger
  than 9, the detected major version ends up being wrong. In this
  case even 0. For example with the current version, the following
  code, munching on
  
   navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"] == "Shockwave Flash 10.0 r32"
  
  simply takes the single '0' in front of the dot as part of "10.0".
  This furtheron leads to the expected minimal Flash version not to
  be verified and acces to the Course blocked to anyone with
  a current Flash Palyer installed. What a nuisance!
  
  
  The failing code in https://www.microsoftelearning.com/themes/default/scripts/flash.js :
  
  function setNavigatorFlashValues() {
   -   43    if (navigator.plugins && navigator.plugins.length) {
   -   44       x = navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"];
   -   45     if (x) {
   -   46            flashInstalled = 2;
   -   47        if (x.description) {
   -   48               y = x.description;
  
  // The failing line
   -   49               flashMajorVersion = y.charAt(y.indexOf('.')-1);
  
   -   50               flashMinorVersion = y.charAt(y.indexOf('.')+1);
   -   51               flashRVersion = y.substring(y.indexOf('r') + 1, y.length);
   -   52               flashVersion = flashMajorVersion + '.' + flashMinorVersion + '.' + flashRVersion;
       53            }
       54     } else {
   -   55        flashInstalled = 1;
       56     }
       57     //if (navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash 2.0"]) {
       58     //   flashInstalled = 2;
       59     //   flashVersion = "2.0.0";
       60     //}
       61    }
       62 } // setNavigatorFlashValues
       63

  Monday, August 3, 2009 10:02 AM