FLASH: Re: Flash and AOL

[Tony Roame]

David Mendels wrote:

>There were some known issues with AOL and Shockwave that effected a small

>percentage of AOL users.  However, I am not aware of such issues with the

>Flash only install. (The Shockwave package actually includes both Flash and

>Shockwave).  The issues with Shockwave have been identified and fixed (they

>came up recently when AOL changed some aspects of their server

>configuration) and will be rolled into a new package shortly.


I've just run into this very problem! I designed a Flash 4 website for

a church youth group. It's still being developed, but they wanted it to

go "live" now so more kids could contribute content. The kids that have

seen it really like it, but I've been getting consistent feedback that 

many kids (all PC-based AOL users) are freezing, crashing or simply

unable to view the site. 


I believe at least one of them just has the Flash-only install--I will 

check to make sure. If there are any AOL users here that can give me

additional feedback or new info, that would be great. Is there anything

I can do differently (i.e. saving in Flash 3 format) that would help?


<http://www.woodlandhillschurch.org/why>


One other thing, pretty much OT: the youth pastor can access the site

from his computer at home, but at the church office Win95 Explorer 5

tells him it can't access the server's website. It's a little embarrassing,

to say the least. The office PC is on a LAN, and it has a valid connection.

I can see my Server website from his computer just fine. To make 

it more interesting, the same ISP serves both sites. Does anyone have 

any ideas? I'm not nearly as proficient with PC's as I am with Macs.

For now I told him to download Netscape and try again...


Thanks lots,


Tony Roame

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