Re: FLASH: Flash 5 players / bad bad bad

[Stephen]

Well, that's why it's beta. :) So there's no guarantees whatsoever to

whomever that downloads that plugin. And if an average user goes the the MM

Flash download site, they'll be presented with the Flash 4 player. You'd

have to -look- for the Flash 5 beta player (albeit not too hard). But

anyway, IMHO, publishing a beta of anything is good... at least you can get

feedback from a whole range of users using different (or multiple sometimes)

browser, os, machine, memory, etc etc... :) Well, that's just what I

think...



Stephen



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From: "Till Steinmetz" <

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Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 11:24 PM

Subject: Re: FLASH: Flash 5 players / bad bad bad



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>

> >I got my Flash 5 beta player to check out Branden Hall's demos. But now

how

> >do I reinstate my old player - is it gone forever? Do I have to go back

to

> >the MM site and download the F4 player again? Auto install is great - but

> >what files are added and where are they put?

>

> In my opinion Macromedia should not have a Flash 5 Player beta version

> available for download. At least not while there are compatibilty problems

> with flash 4 movies. You know what the average users does: If new Version

> number > old Version number they install it. No matter if it's an early

> alpha, beta or a developer release. Then it's up to us to explain the

> project managers why the sites are not working anymore. I think there are

> MAJOR compatibility problems with Flash 4 Movies and Flash 5 Player. About

> half of the sites i built don't work with the beta player...

>

> Till

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