RE: FLASH: Flash Player 5

[Ken Lanxner]

On 8/4/00 at 5:35 AM, JGL <

infodesignthenet [dot] com

> wrote:

 

> >What's lacking is much support from other designers,

 

> I have posted several pleas that did not make it to the list . . . as

> I am sure there are others that are not here for you to read too Ken.


> And BTW, I reported this BUG immediately, 10 minutes after I got the

> 5player. Look at the archives, Ken.


I didn't start this thread, but I certainly dumped a lot of fuel on it

with my statement quoted above. Now, seeing all the responses that have

been generated, I am changing my tune and switching over to your side.


I have been checking the archives and they confirm my original point.

When I first wrote the above, there had been only 2 people on this list

complaining about the beta -- you and Till Steinmetz. And in both cases,

no one spoke up to agree with you. Mention casino ads or forcing

full-screen movies and there are 150 posts in a few hours. But pleas

from you and Till were mostly ignored. Some people wrote to say that

they didn't notice any problems.


Meanwhile, no mention by anyone on the Dreamweaver list, nothing on any

of the HWG lists, nothing on another Flash list I'm on, no problems on

my end, no problems mentioned by my Flash designer neighbor with Windows

98, IE, and the F5 plugin. It was reasonable for me to assume *at that

time* that the extent of the problem was not very wide.


But now, everyone has come out of the woodwork and I see that it is a

widespread problem. So I apologize for not recognizing this sooner.


Please note that I never criticized your situation or your argument with

MM. I was just remarking that a week or so after the F5 player beta was

released, only a handful of people on this list had anything negative to

say about the availability of the player. Where was everybody the first

time you brought this to our attention?! :-)


I am also glad to see that you and others seem to have had an effect

(assuming John D can get MM to revise their site) on influencing change.

Congratulations! Power to the people!


I'm CCing this to you because we never know when this message will ever

make it to the list.


Take care,

Ken



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