Re: FLASH: Flash 5 players / bad bad bad

[Till Steinmetz]

Hi,


>Well, that's why it's beta. :) So there's no guarantees whatsoever to

>whomever that downloads that plugin. And if an average user goes the the MM

>Flash download site, they'll be presented with the Flash 4 player. You'd

>have to -look- for the Flash 5 beta player (albeit not too hard). But

>anyway, IMHO, publishing a beta of anything is good... at least you can get

>feedback from a whole range of users using different (or multiple sometimes)

>browser, os, machine, memory, etc etc... :) Well, that's just what I

>think...


So what about the "official" link to the flash download page 

(http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash) 

??

I'd say noone can miss the flash 5 beta player link there. And there is not 

a single word about the fact that it is likely that Flash 4 Movies wont 

play anymore if you install this plugin. You heard about the research of 

user behaviour on the internet ? If a site is not working on the first 

visit the chance is very low they will ever try it again. As i said, about 

half of the flash sites i built do NOT work with the beta plugin. Neither 

do most of the detection schemes. I'd really be happy if macromedia would 

hide the beta plugin somewhere in the developer section where the USERS 

can't find it that easily unless they fix the Flash 4 compatibility.


Except for some people who are part of the beta program or the ones who got 

a pirated Flash 5 version there is noone who can author flash 5 content 

anyway so what kind of beta test should this be ?


Till




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