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Subject: | Re: FLASH: Flash 5 players (reprise!), attn: John Dowdell (#2) |
From: | Helen Triolo |
Date: | Fri, 4 Aug 2000 01:56:14 +0100 |
(repost with a couple alterations)
John Dowdell wrote:
>
> At 10:07 PM 7/29/0, flashy junior wrote:
> > I know it's a BETA but can't they separate the BETA from the
> > standard shockwave install & update procedures
>
> It is separate... if you go to the download center you'll see that 4.0r28
> is what most people currently get:
> http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/
>
John,
In regards to the above, that link goes to a download page for Shockwave
and Flash which, as you say, doesn't have any reference to the Flash 5
beta player.
But the link for Flash alone (the one that gets published into Flash
files) is
http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash
which *does* have a link, right at the top, saying Get Macromedia Flash
5 Player Beta NOW! Shouldn't this link be removed (as JGL noted a
couple of times today) until the bugs are removed from the Flash 5
player
so the unknowing public doesn't wonder why their Flash sites don't work
anymore? I thought the beta player was only supposed to be available in
an "alternates" directory. Am I mistaken in thinking that the page
above is one to which the general public might be directed? (I just
noticed that it's also the page I'm sent to if I go to
www.macromedia.com, click Downloads, Flash plug-ins, Download Flash
Player)
Hoping that I don't sound too obnoxious, but what is the justification
for having the link to an untested beta on that page?
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