Re: FLASH: FLASH Messing up people's computers?

[Laura Mollett]

> At 2:59 PM 2/16/0, Kyle Sandstrom wrote:

>>I just finished a site for a client and he uploaded the site to an Apache

>>server. I told him they needed to have their mime types set correctly before

>>viewing it or it wouldn't work properly. Anyways the CEO went to the site,

>>the popup screen came up saying to download Flash(since the MIME types

>>weren't set up), and he downloaded something. Then he doesn't see anything

>>on the site since I'm presuming the download didn't work and now he claims

>>he can't see his NASDAQ site. Is this possible and only caused by not having

>>the MIME types set up? This client is now convinced that Flash is going to

>>crash everyone's machines and about 1% of all visitors will see the site.

>

> Have him restart his computer.

...

> For the client's concern about other people having the same experience,

> then once you fully set up the page it won't be a problem, as shown by the

> million+ successful new installations per day.


JSYK :) The nasdaq site (particularly the portion that you need a user id to

log into and get information from - not positive that's what he was

accessing, but sounds like it might be) uses flash. The site is probably

messed up because he messed up a plug-in he already has and uses. If flash

itself was a problem, he'd never have been able to access that to start with

;) (So many people don't even realize they already have the flash plug-in :)


Laura


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