FLASH: Main Shockwave download page provides buggy Flash install on IE5.

[Jeremy Pinkham]

Hi; just wanted to clear up some confusion (perhaps on my part)


Last week Brad Bechtel of Macromedia Flash QA announced on this list that

Flash Player 4.0r28 for Windows had been officially released, in order to

address database issues on both platforms and sound issues in the Windows

version of the player.  In that message he informed the Flasher list that

this release would be available at the main Shockwave download page (

http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/ ).  However, yesterday I went

to that page with my Windows 98 machine (using I.E. 5), and pressing the

Autoinstall button installed Flash Player 4.0r25, which still contains the

database connectivity ampersand bug.  Reading the fine print on this page

states that 4.0r25 (created in December, '99) is indeed the version

installed.


My question would be, then, is there a reason why 4.0r25 is still being

served to the public in the main Shockwave download, though the bugs in that

version of the Flash Player have been fixed by a more recent release?


Thanks,


Jeremy Pinkham

Multimedia Developer

Zydigo Technologies


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