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From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Jun 23, 2005 9:22AM

> Christian Heilmann

> We have a client that has a Flash version and an HTML version of the
> same site. The Flash version will be by its very nature not accessible
> to all (marketing speak, games, loads of moving sliding and bouncing
> bits) and is not meant to be. Both versions have the same data, and
> get generated from one source. As it stands now, they automatically
> send Flash users to the singing and dancing version, which is clearly
> a bad idea. I proposed a bridge page to let the visitor choose.

How about just a discrete "View non-flash version" (or something a bit sexier
and less techie sounding) and matching "View flash version" on those pages.

Also, you could possibly pipe those links through an additional bit of
script that sets a cookie, so if the user chose to click through to the
non-flash version, the browser remembers it next time (similar to what
you obviously want to implement, but without necessarily asking the user,
but simply taking a cue from their choice).

Patrick
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