Lagging swf

what's up guys,
i've been away for a vacation and just returned. hope
everyone is well.
i also have a question:
i have a swf that works beautifully in my flash player, but
when published into an html file it seems to lag. i don't have any
onEnterFrame's or setIntervals that are not properly terminated.
anyone have any thoughts? one last thing, does anyone know if
publishing a swf to detect a user's flash version should include
some flash generated javascript? if not, what is a good way to
approach detecting a user's flash version (mac and pc) and linking
to an alternate html file?
thanks,
_name

For the lagging part... I can't say for sure. The browser
players are supposedly a little slower than the standalone player
so that could be part of it, and may have greater impact on fps etc
if there is a lot of code running in onEnterFrames or intervals if
its sluggish overall. If its just slow to start in comparison then
that could just be the download rate, especially if you have a lot
of code or symbols set to export on frame 1.
In terms of detecting flash version, I tend to use the
utility with swfobject (javascript) which I also use for embedding.
There are examples for what you want to do I think on the site,
plus the expressInstall option if you want to do that instead.
http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/

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