Re: FLASH: PUBLISH woes...

[Russell E. Unger]

JD:


Here's my problem with this...


I was responded to by Brad off-list.  It seems to me that this should be a

concern of everyone.  It still is.  Regardless of the intention or the

description of how to accomplish this, which I've already stated that I know how

to do and can do, the fact of the matter is that the pop-up window occurs when we

think we're developing an F3 .swf with the pre-generated HTML from F4.  That's

still a pretty crappy thing to do to a developer and can cause a lot of

complaints at the expense of the collective "us".  What does MACR gain?  More F4

player downloads.  Yippee!  Now my clients and employers are pissed because I

didn't know of this to begin with because I installed the F4 player plugin when I

installed F4 (who wouldn't?).


I'm simply stating that it's


1)  a pain in the arse


2)  something that is counter-intuitive


3)  a pain to a lot of Flashers, as a lot of them do not know HTML well enough to

understand the problem


4)  borderline deceitful.


Deceitful may be a bit strong; this is no SW702, but it's a pretty

forceful/sneaky way to obtain an extra few downloads of the new player at the

hands of someone who wanted to start getting fluent with the F4 interface while

developing in F3 for their clients.  I'd be hard-pressed to think that there was

not a little bit of foresite and snickering in a small conference room somewhere

about this one.


Dispute as you'd like.  I still see this my way and it will not be worth the

energy to attempt and change it.


Call me paranoid and discredit me if you'd like, and not that I think that you

would; you guys are pretty fair about this stuff, and it may actually be

something folks at your level had nothing to do with, but it's a bit crappy, even

at the lowest of levels.


Russ


John Dowdell wrote:


> At 9:43 AM 8/23/99, Russell E. Unger wrote:

> > I'm simply using the default but I'm publishing a Flash 3

> > .swf, so it seems to me that the program should be somewhat

> > intuitive enough to understand that I'm requesting a simple

> > embed.

>

> The default HTML template does indeed use the current Flash Player as a

> default. If you'd like, though, you can make your own HTML template to

> specify an older-player-or-better:

>

> 1)  Open up the "default.html" in a text editor. This is in your Flash >

> HTML folder.

>

> 2)  Change the "codebase" line to version 3.

>

> 3)  Change the first "$TT" line to your desired title ("myf3default.htm" eg).

>

> 4)  "Save As" a new file in the same folder.

>

> If you routinely display your SWFs in a table of some type, or in some

> other repeating HTML style, then it's straightforward to use this as a

> template. It's only the Flash-specific "$*" elements that upon export.

>

> jd

>

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