FLASH: Flash 5 retrocompatibility?

[John King]

There are a lot of Flash 5 files showing up on the flash sites.


With flash5 everything's fine but if you try to view these with only the

flash4 player you get nothing. That's fine if your intent is to use the

FLA provided to demonstrate Flash 5 authoring or if the movie uses some

capability not found in flash 4. 


What I want to know is what is the new thing that's keeping flash5

content from being viewable with flash4player (I know what some are for

the previous versions). Are the movies really doing something that you

can't do in flash4? What would a flash5 sniffer do? It's my

understanding that flash4 rewrites the actionscript if you open a flash5

fla in flash4, so why can't the 4 player play 5?


(Please, let's not replay the "I don't care if they can't see my content

if they're too lazy to get off their ass and get the new player"

diatribe)


Thanks



-  John L. King  -

SWEHSC, Center for Toxicology, U of Arizona


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