Re: FLASH: URL for Flash 3?

[John Dowdell]

At 11:07 AM 3/10/0,

KTewesaol [dot] com

 wrote:

>asked the same question last week twice. No response - only the people of

>Macromedia sayed, that they didn�t see any sense in offering the old pls for

>download. Really can�t understand that. I know, that here are a lot of people

>around, who want them for testing. Just ignorant imo.



That's at least the second time you've misrepresented what I actually

wrote. Here's the original:



>Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:25:58 -0700

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

>

From: jdowdellmacromedia [dot] com (John Dowdell)

>Subject: Re: FLASH: Flsh 2 and 3 Plugins

>

>

At 8:25 AM 2/25/0, Teweshbg [dot] dpa [dot] de wrote:

>> Is there any place where I can get the Flash 3 and 2 Plugins for testing??

>

>I don't see a repository for all the various versions on all the various

>platforms and packagings (as plugin, as control, etc), but for what it's

>worth you can save out from the Macromedia Flash 4 authoring environment in

>SWF 2 or SWF 3 format. This will strip out newer features, and the current

>Flash 4 Players will treat this as an older file.

>

>(If you're instead attempting to test JavaScript version detection in the

>Netscape 3+ browsers, then there are various tested scripting examples in

>the online repositories. The Microsoft browsers do not support this

>ability, though.)

>

>jd

>




Like I said, I don't know that Macromedia has a repository of all the

versions, on all the platforms, in all the various formats. If you go look

at the "Need Another Web Player" pages in the download center you'll see

that there is more than just "Mac" and "Win".


There was no judgment expressed there about whether it "made sense" to

invest in making such an archive, just that there isn't one. The above

recommendations for achieving the main sets of goals people attempt to

satisfy when making such a request still stands.




jd






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