Re: FLASH: linux installation problem

[John Dowdell]

At 3:10 AM 11/28/0,

brownhhartford-hwp [dot] com

 wrote:

>> Try the one-or-all-sites test... if one particular site fails, then its

>> JavaScript may note permitting your setup, for instance.

>> (If no site ever works then you would know to look at the config instead.)

>

>Sorry again for newbie puzzlement. What is the "one-or-all-sites"

>test? It's becoming evident that a person exploring Flash really needs

>to have set of URLs to see of what it is capable.



The "one-or-all" tests are typed up a couple of times each week here... if

a problem occurs in all situations, then that's different than if it only

occurs in some situations. If it happens regardless of browser you know

it's not a browser issue, if it happens regardless of site you know it's

not a site issue, if it happens regardless of SWF you know it's not a SWF

issue... changing one part of the problem at a time lets you find out what

the actual problem is.


When you install the Player there's a test page right there to see if

things went normally.





>I did visit a site on which at least the visual aspect of Flash seems

>to work nicely, but on the first one I had to pull up the context menu

>to trigger a Play for each segment. Your statement seems to infer that

>the reason may be an incompatibility between that site's Javascript

>and my own "setup." I assume "setup" here refers to my version of

>Netscape and its configuration.


Sorry, not sure what may be intended to be asked here.




>Would you happen know that status of a Flash 5 player for Linux?


No change from last week... current version is 4 and I haven't seen an

estimated date published yet. Info I have is what's on the website, sorry.


jd








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