Document.write in Portal?

Question

This is a continuation of an issue I posted in a previous thread.
My college's Portal home page displays a pagelet containing a Flash animation that provides rotating content for students, such as news about registration, ongoing contests, etc. Because not all browsers support Flash, I've been tasked with writing some javascript that will detect whether Flash is installed, and if not, display a static JPEG image instead. The pagelet was created using the Pagelet Wizard and pulls in a static html file stored on the network. I've embedded the script in that file.
The script appears to work fine in IE 7. In Opera, the static image is correctly displayed. In Safari, a blank pagelet is displayed. This is also the case in IE 8. No maximization buttons exist in either case. The worst offender is Firefox 3.6. The Flash animation appears outside of the pagelet, up at the upper left corner of the browser.
I've tried a number of different approaches. The script originally used document.write() to write content to the browser depending on what browser was detected, and whether Flash was installed. That approach never worked reliably in Firefox, so I then created a div element in the static HTML file and used .innerText to write to it. Turns out Firefox has known bugs in the innerText implementation.
So now I'm reduced to writing a very detailed browser sniffer that detects specific user agents and their versions, and then executes different Flash-replacement approaches per each. My question is therefore a variation on the usual one: Has anybody encountered this kind of problem before, and does a known fix exist? Once I come up with something that works, I can post the results here for everybody's edification. But it would be nice if such an animal already is out there somewhere.

Answer 1

Hi,
please add this step:
2b. Click on the oc4j-container (like home or oc4j_soa or ...) where you want to deploy the portal...