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

[Helen Triolo]

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 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 that the general public might be directed to?


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