RE: FLASH: Flash Player 5

[Ryan Creighton]

	i am worried about the people who download the Flash5 beta player

seeing only the "5" and not really caring about the "BETA"  ... those

next-best-thing people who need to buy the latest laserdisc player as soon

as it comes out because giant LP-sized frisbees are the wave of the future,

and then get frustrated when Flash stuff doesn't work any more.  Who knows?

It may even cause a backlash or, at the very least, beeg problems with

broken players when people neglect to dl a working version.


	One of the biggest complaints i've heard about Flash, albeit in the

early days, was that it required a plugin.  This whole plugin thing is not

something you wanna mess with when dealing with the general, sometimes

irrational public.  It doesn't take 2.3 bazillion people downloading the

thing to note that it was very broken ... a few industry beta testers would

have sufficed.


- Ryan Creighton





> -----Original Message-----

>

From: Brad Merritt [bmerrittpmg [dot] net (mailto:bmerrittpmg [dot] net)]

> Sent: August 4, 2000 9:53 AM

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: RE: FLASH: Flash Player 5

> 

> 

> I think most people know what beta means and the risks 

> involved with beta

> products.

> I for one would rather use the product as much as possible in 

> beta to avoid

> bugs in the final version. I actually think that MM should be 

> a bit more

> open with its betas due to the fact they have so many loyal 

> developers. I

> think everyone on the list would be happy to use a beta 

> product if that

> meant that you would not run into a bug while you are in the 

> middle of a big

> client project.

> 

> If you run into a problem you merely inform MM and keep 

> trying to break that

> beta. If you ruin into a real problem with a client project, 

> etc. That's

> your fault for misusing a beta product. I am having MAJOR 

> problems with my

> movies not working with the F5 player, but the solution is 

> trying to work

> with MM to iron them out, not complain on this list.

> 

> So anyone from MM is reading these posts, keep the beta 

> testing open in the

> future. It means less problems for all of us down the line.

> 

> brad

> 

> 

> Subject: RE: FLASH: Flash Player 5

> 

> >MM's decision to release a beta is causing crises for your project

> 

> 

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