Re: FLASH: Current time

[John Dowdell]

At 8:59 AM 9/25/0, David Wallach wrote:

>I now have 2 clients who have gone to the mm plugin download page only to

>get the flash 4 plugin again?!?!?!?!  Can you say 'two clients who wont pay

>for more flash' ?

>What is the story with that?  why does the page claim to be installing the

>flash5 and shock8, and NOT install the flash 5 plugin? is there an

>alternative url? telling every one to got to the 'download other players'

>page is unexceptable, isnt it?


For the original thread, Randy typed out both scenarios for you... if in

F5, then read up on "date"; if in previous versions then that comes up each

week here and JavaScript can do it but not in all browsers, but setting up

a CGI on your server can get predictable time (if you've already studied up

on "loadvariables").


For your post above, most people get the current Player... if they didn't,

it might have been noticed by now. Therefore when you're troubleshooting

that case you should look at the particulars in your situation, so that at

worst you could ask others something about shared experience, rather than

just challenging everyone else to guess how you might be seeing something

no one else sees.


For "How might I think the Macromedia site is only offering the Macromedia

Flash Player 4?" then possible ways include, but are not limited, to:

specifying an URL for the old player rather than the current player;

running in IE/Win and also keeping the F4 Player active while installing

and also not letting the computer restart as it requests; reporting error;

invalid assessment of which player is installed; an inaccurate JavaScript

detection routine... there could definitely be other ways to get such an

impression, but the above are the ones I'm most readily able to imagine, if

that context might be of use while you investigate the symptom.


jd







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