Re: FLASH: Plugin instalation problems

[Warren 'The Howdy Man' Ockrassa]

Nigel Randsley-Pena wrote:


> Warren,


Howdy!


> Yes Opera is very cool. The installation file at 1.29Mb is smaller than

> some plugins we both know and love ;)


Which really is hard for some folks to believe, I think. It fits on one

diskette. But I think most folks now are used to 15-Mb DLs just to get

off the ground with the latest, greatest, loudest.


I don't know whence the code bloat from which Mozilla or IE suffer. HTML

is *not* that hard to parse, not so tricky it requires 5 Mb worth of

support DLLs. I can take care of the commonest tags with about ten lines

of Lingo.


> Macromedia players are only targeted for Microsoft and Netscape based

> browsers, but it shouldn't be to hard for Macromedia to support other

> browsers outside of these categories, what would it take ?


A couple years back Shockwave had nary a complaint when I plugged it

into an Opera folder. But I'd guess, again, that marketing's a factor.

No one has asked for Opera support, which is really a shame. So the

newer versions don't have it.


> Macromedia's site insists on displaying the alternate page


They are probably using some kind of browser detection. My feeling is

that if your site is so media laden you need browser detection, it

*might* be time to consider a redesign.


> One site that does allow for quick and easy testing is nightwares as it

> has both flash and director content.


Heh heh! Actually that's an example of what I just wrote. nightwares

works with *text only* browsers (I have lynx on my server so that

matters to me) and even supports *frameless* browsers. The only thing

one has to do is select, at the index page, whether one wants the shock

side or the HTML side. After that I just use the stuff that's so basic

to HTML it's hardly worth mentioning.


In other words I don't really care what browser the user is employing;

nightwares' message, its content, should be conveyed regardless.


I will probably eventually simplify the HTML tags associated with the

shocked files too. Any particular suggestions/caveats?


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