Re: FLASH: DoD Policy: attn. Macromedia Support

[John McKenzie]

John Dowdell wrote:


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

>> player and "Flash" *is* "an Active X Control".

> 

> What Matt said. In short, the Flash Player *can* be in the form of an

> ActiveX Control, but it's also frequently a Netscape Plugin instead. (The

> ActiveX form is really only if you're using the IE/Win browser.)

> 

> They may wish to remember that for intranet use they can license this

> Player for internal distribution... there's no scenario here where it would

> be necessary to install ActiveX Controls over that scary internet thing....

> ;-)

> 

> jd


I have it on good authority that, for this reason, the Pentagon is switching

entirely to Macs, which don't have ActiveX. I think it kind of got rolling

with that Army web hacking thing.


 John McKenzie

April Fool's -- late.



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