Re: FLASH: Flash 5 players (reprise!), attn: John Dowdell (#2)

[flashy junior]

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From: Helen Triolo <designeri-technica [dot] com>

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To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

>Subject: Re: FLASH: Flash 5 players  (reprise!), attn: John Dowdell (#2)

>Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 15:43:23 -0400

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>(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?



All I know is that people(both developers and end-users) are ending up with 

a flash plug-in that does not play current flash content. I wouldn't have 

thought that would be acceptable?? Maybe it is??


Flashy

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