Re: FLASH: We *want* those historic plugins!

[John Dowdell]

At 7:14 AM 3/11/0, unique wrote:

> > What has to happen for this to become available?

>

> I'll tell ya one thing that has to happen: more than one or

> two of us has to become "hot" about this issue at the same time!


No, posting lots, with lots of exclamation points, won't help, and may

actually reduce your overall readership.


Like I said, if you want to write your own JavaScript routines, and already

tossed your browsers with older plugins, then there is currently no online

repository of all the various varieties people might want. You can still

get older players off your operating system CD, or off old browser CDs...

they're frozen in various places.


Tech support has been pushing for such a historical online repository for a

long time, but -- when you stop to think about versions and sub-versions

and installers and all -- there are significant implementation problems to

overcome.


If you're just concerned about JavaScript detection -- in those browsers

which support it! -- then there are many existing methods published. If

you're just concerned about playback, then exporting in older SWF formats

will give you older SWF files.


If you want to *do* something, then drop a note to wish-flash so that other

people understand what your precise need is... this would help back up tech

support's previous requests for some type of ongoing player library,

thanks.




JGL wrote:

> my thinking is why tell them to upgrade at a particular site if

> they don't need to.


For this, if you don't have an antique player already, then you can always

simulate it by exporting from Flash 4 in SWF 3 or SWF 2 format. This will

strip out newer features. If your piece plays happily, then you know it

will run fine in an older Flash Player



Benny Vluggen wrote:

> please give us some status about the release date of the Flash SDK.


If I have any political credit to expand with the web team, then I'd rather

expend it in getting the docs to the SWF 4 file format and the Flash Player

source code up on the site... these satisfy a unique set of needs which are

higher on my personal priority list than collecting and setting up a

library of a range of the older players.


jd









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