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Subject:	Re: FLASH: Flash 5; new player install necessary?
From:	Thorsten Schmiedel
Date:	Tue, 25 Jul 2000 19:48:26 +0100

Hi Matt,

thanks for your kind reply,
maybe I have a talent for expressing myself the complicated way...
what I wanted to know was how much of the actionscript-based gets lost when
I export a MMF5 project as MMF4-swf...
You already mentioned e.g. that MMF5-trig functions are translated by the
flash4 plugin....

<snip>
>> 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.
<snip>

tia for your reply,

thorsten

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