Re: FLASH: Remote - was RE:Reaction to SW 7.0.2

[Warren 'The Howdy Man' Ockrassa]

Nigel Randsley-Pena wrote:


> The user is viewing a Flash movie

> that indicates it is saveable and the user likes it and wants to save

> it. He clicks the save option and download starts. Now how does the

> remote know what to download ? The developer tells it what to download,

> that's how, via an xml text based file that instructs the remote what to

> save and how to save. So if a particular Flash movie is going to be set

> to offline viewability then we have to prepare it for such.


Yes. At this time.


I appreciate the further explication, but I think my main point's

missed. (Not surprising, since I didn't really *describe* my point

before...)


At this time, extensive work must be done on the HTML side to make files

savable.


I do not believe that will be true forever. As I recall the original

default was to have the remote set to save in all cases; early beta

testers agitated to change that.


In other words, if a *lot* of noise had not been made early on, Flash

content may not have required HTML tags to be savable. A *lot* of files

would have broken.


And we still don't know for certain how things are going to shape up

with the ShockMachine.


All I ask is that MACR pull the remote out of SW702 and include it as a

*separate* downloadable element. When they do that, I will shut up and

get on with life. Until then I will continue pounding the horse.


Anyway, thanks, Nigel, for clarifying things a little. I can understand

why you may not feel overly perturbed about the remote at this time, but

I do ask that you consider what I'm saying, and consider the possibility

that you -- and other Flash users -- will have good reason to be

concerned about it soon enough.


--WthmO


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