Re[2]: FLASH: DoD Policy: attn. Macromedia Support

[Roger Heath]

Reply to: Jefferis

      Re: FLASH: DoD Policy: attn. Macromedia Support on Monday 12:26:45 PM

    From: Roger Heath

heathrleeheath [dot] com

J> On Mon, 3 Apr 2000 10:59:15 EDT,

AndrewScratchaol [dot] com

 wrote:


J> I am also interested in this answer.  A teacher friend of mine says her 

J> network administrator for the entire school district will not allow Flash 

J> plug-ins or access to the media from their system for security reasons as 

J> well [although Flash is just lumped in with all other active media, not 

J> singled out.]

>>

>>The network people at the Pentagon strongly contend that Flash player and 

>>"Flash" *is* "an Active X Control". I don't exactly know what they mean 

>>semantically, but I do know that in practice it means that no Flash files 

>>or Flash Players are allowed on the Pentagon Network---period.


I am interested in this issue also. The desktop browser system we are

developing uses Flash in its default on-board portal. If this were a

problem we could probably have a 'Disable all OCXs except Flash'

feature. We are already filtering out common Web Bugs and third party

advertising for privacy and boosting browser performance. I do not

see why we would have any problem detecting and allowing only Flash

files. I'd be curious if this would be an acceptable solution? If any

one here has contacts at these places, you may email these privately

to me and I will follow up on this issue. Obviously if we can meet

such unique needs, our product would be boosted by such features.


More product info : http://www.desktopcontrol.com


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Roger Heath

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