FLASH: Re: Flash and AOL

[Wayne Townsend]

I tried to download flash 4 onto a potential client's AOL 4.0/win 3.1 

machine the other day.  The download went fine - both shockwave 

version and Flash.  The install went through it's whole process, but 

the files never ended up where they were supposed to be in her 

directories.


So no go with flash on her system.  There was a message somewhere in 

the process that said AOL users are having problems installing flash 

and they're working on it.


<sigh>


/wayne




>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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