Comments on: Flash 8 Animations by Nectarine: Part 1 of 6 - “Intro” http://madowney.com/blog/2005/10/26/flash-8-animations-by-nectarine-part-1-of-6-intro/ Mike Downey is the Principal Evangelist for Platform Business Development at Adobe Systems and focuses on Adobe's platform technologies including AIR, Flash, and Flex. This is his personal blog. The views expressed on this site are his and his alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of Adobe Systems, it's employees or partners in any way. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:54:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: MOLOKO http://madowney.com/blog/2005/10/26/flash-8-animations-by-nectarine-part-1-of-6-intro/#comment-1574 MOLOKO Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:42:30 +0000 http://madowney.com/blog/?p=183#comment-1574 Hilarious!! Although one thing I notice it utterly fails to mention is the nasty bug in Flash Player ActiveX control version 8,0,22,0 on Windows 2000 (sp4) that stops flash from making getURL("javascript:functionName();"); calls. This is a major nightmare for us as all our flash-based e-learning uses the above technique to send tracking data back to the LMS. Many of our clients who are still running Win2K are now upgrading to flash 8 and we are being inundated with calls as to why all our e-learning stops tracking!! Please do something about this quick before my phone melts under the pressure of all the support calls! It's not an easy thing to sort out either as downgrading the flash player is not exactly straightforward - and if the users don't have admin rights to their kit it's even worse :-( demo here: http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/prod/dialspace/town/pipexdsl/q/aqyo41/geturl/ still seems to work fine on all other platforms and browsers thankfully - it's only a Win2k/IE problem. Hilarious!!

Although one thing I notice it utterly fails to mention is the nasty bug in Flash Player ActiveX control version 8,0,22,0 on Windows 2000 (sp4) that stops flash from making
getURL(”javascript:functionName();”);
calls. This is a major nightmare for us as all our flash-based e-learning uses the above technique to send tracking data back to the LMS. Many of our clients who are still running Win2K are now upgrading to flash 8 and we are being inundated with calls as to why all our e-learning stops tracking!!
Please do something about this quick before my phone melts under the pressure of all the support calls! It’s not an easy thing to sort out either as downgrading the flash player is not exactly straightforward - and if the users don’t have admin rights to their kit it’s even worse :-(
demo here:
http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/prod/dialspace/town/pipexdsl/q/aqyo41/geturl/

still seems to work fine on all other platforms and browsers thankfully - it’s only a Win2k/IE problem.

]]> By: David Martinez http://madowney.com/blog/2005/10/26/flash-8-animations-by-nectarine-part-1-of-6-intro/#comment-1573 David Martinez Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:22:01 +0000 http://madowney.com/blog/?p=183#comment-1573 Really good stuff! Well done. Visuals and Audio are CLEAN and refreshing. David Martinez http://www.seidon.com/ - My Blog http://www.futurefront.com/ - my Design Firm Really good stuff! Well done. Visuals and Audio are CLEAN and refreshing.

David Martinez
http://www.seidon.com/ - My Blog
http://www.futurefront.com/ - my Design Firm

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