Re: FLASH: Flash 5; new player install necessary?

[Matt Wobensmith]

Hi Thorsten -


You wrote:


>Is it necessary for the users of our flash sites to download and install a

>.new MM FlashPlugIn or is it as well possible to toss out MMF4-compatible

>.SWFs?


No, they can use the existing Flash 4 player to view Flash 4-created SWFs

and below.


>Do those downward-compatibles lack the new MMF5-features? If there is

>a new PlugIn-version, are the standard browser types already equipped with

>it?


The Macromedia Flash Player is backwards compatible; it is not, however,

"forwards compatible". What I'm saying is that the Flash 4 player will not

play Flash 5 movies correctly. You will need to provide a detection scheme

to determine the end user's player version, if you use Flash 5 to author

Flash 5 SWFs.


Currently, there are no shipping browsers that have the Flash 5 player. The

only place to get it at the moment is on the alternate downloads page on our

site - it's a public beta at the moment.


Matt

Macromedia

Flash Community Manager







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