FLASH: Under the Flashing Sky Part2

[Jeff Bradshaw]

Part 2

Ok so I just got of the phone with the IT guy on the other coast...who

is calling Flash "middleware" and says there are big issues not to use

all this "Flash stuff " I've done because of "user reluctance" to

download plug-ins. Now I'm no tech wizard, but if this intranet site is

being delivered by way of an Unix box running Windows 95 ..isn't all the

has to be done is to configure the mime type with the addition of the

line: MIME Type: application/x-shockwave-flash Suffix: SWF....and tha'ts

it! Can someone shed some light here...this is one instance where it

would help to be in the same city.


Part 1

This is kinda (OT) but certainly Flash related....I've produced some

"stuff" for a client, some of which is Flash based. Everything runs fine


locally on the clients hard drive, but I rec'd an email yesterday

stating..."Good morning, I got all your messages.

Just to clarify, I have no problem opening default.htm after I unzip it,


from my local drive. When I copied over to my server, run within my

INTRANET server, it only shows the blue background.  Is it that I might

have to install Flash? This is not good, because I have over 100+ users

all over the place, we have such a difficulty to install IE 4.0 on their


desk top (it's been over 2 months and it's not done yet!) so, I really

don't want to have to install anything on their PC, even if it's easy,

free, and downloadable....That's why we want everything to be Intranet,

not client server, so we don't need to have anything installed on any

user pc."


Now I'm thinking to myself, I've got plan B if this goes real bad, and I


certainly need to talk to the MIS people first to make sure the "mime

type" is set...but in light of all the talk about Flash plug-in

saturation...has anyone else run into this "Oh my god, the sky is

falling" scenario?



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