Re: FLASH: Flash Player 5 - ARRRG!

[John Dowdell]

At 5:42 AM 8/3/0, JGL wrote:

> Just curious why the Flash5 Beta player is available for public

> consumption. I thought it was a developers release only.


A beta build of the Macromedia Flash 5 Player is definitely public

available, which is how developers on this list get it.... ;-)


The main download pages definitely do continue with the current 4.0r28

version, so consumers get the 4.0 Player.


To access the current public beta players you need to go to the "Need

another player?" link:

http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates/


It's entirely possible some non-developers would click that link and see

the public beta. They'd have to work to get it, though, and would certainly

know what they've got....


...hold it, considering that guy who downloaded something that said it was

an authoring tool beta and then asked people for advice here, ya never

know, the diversity of humankind is a continual source of amazement and, on

the good days, inspiration..... ;-)



(fwiw, there have been subsequent internal builds, but these haven't gone

through the testing needed to reach either private-beta or public-beta

status... it's not as simple as just putting up the day's working build.)


jd








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