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Subject: Re: FLASH: list of Flash player bugs?
From: Dan Eckam
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 23:15:57 +0100

The JavaScript at http://www.joinhandtech.com works. The problem is
that there is a rarely-occurring auto-download problem with IE 5 on PCs.
Here is the original question:

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Does anyone know where I could find a comprehensive list of all the bugs
in the Flash player, with various browser versions, etc.?

I am investigating a bug wherein a user got caught in a loop downloading
the Flash plugin for IE 5.0. Although the movie on the page was Flash
4, sometimes a dialog box would pop up asking them if they wanted to
install Flash 3. Whatever the dialog said, it would auto-download the
Flash 4 plugin (ActiveX, actually), but then the page still didn't work.
Has anyone else seen this problem?

Thanks,
Dan

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>From: jdowdellatmacromedia [dot] com (John Dowdell)
>To: flasheratchinwag [dot] com
>Subject: Re: FLASH: list of Flash player bugs?
>Date: Tue, Apr 25, 2000, 3:44 PM
>

>At 12:59 PM 4/24/0, Dan Eckam wrote:
>>Yes, the URL where this happened is http://www.joinhandtech.com.
>
>I don't remember the original question, but when I look at the HTML to this
>page I see some type of JavaScript detection routine that I don't
>immediately recognize.
>
>Is the core of the problem that some browsers don't respond to a JavaScript
>test as intended...?
>
>fwiw, I see that the OBJECT tag is requiring the 4.02 or later player... if
>it doesn't require printing then you could require a lesser version on that
>page, although I'm not sure whether this is related to the core problem
>there.
>
>hmm, looking at the JavaScript there, it seems to route IE/Mac visitors to
>a different page, but it also seems to be sending visitors in NS2+ to a
>"noflash" page. But that can't be right, because I visited in NS4.x/NT and
>saw the SWF... I haven't opened up the JavaScript in a debugger.
>
>Do you see anything particular to SWF content itself? Do you get what you
>expect when *not* using that particular JavaScript routine...?
>
>jd
>
>
>
>
>
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