Vimeo's White Screen of Death in IE

Recently I noticed my embedded Vimeo players were all broken in IE. I was getting just a blank white screen. It turns out Vimeo requires you to have Flash version >= 10. That is fine, but unfortunately their player doesn't fail gracefully if you have an older flash version. My VM had Flash 6. It is simple to check for a particular version of flash in JS. That allows us to fail gracefully on behalf of Vimeo. Here is a snippet that can check if the client browser is good enough for vimeo.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/swfobject/2.2/swfobject.js"></script>
<script>
  function goodEnufForVimeo(){
    var playerVersion = swfobject.getFlashPlayerVersion();
    return (playerVersion.major >= 10); 
  }
</script>