> At 7:31 AM 8/11/4, Damien McKenna wrote:
>> The easier way, just have a link to the actual SWF with
>> instructions to right-click and hit Save As rather than
>> left-clicking. Then they just have to double-click on the
>> file to open it up in their default SWF viewer (usually a
>> web browser or the Flash Player).
>
> Yeah that would be nice... but a lot of these people will not
> have Flash player installed, only the browser plug-in, and
> unless the swf format is associated with IE it will not open
> automatically. But truly the biggest problem is this is for our
> average users, when you say something like right click and save
> as, you have already lost them and then they are calling our
> support line. So I really need this to be as simple as possible
> for them.
Maybe turn this around... how do you visualize these people finding the
file that they'd like to view offline? Do you think they'll be looking at
the original HTML page they saw while they were connected? (If so, then
this seems like a problem of reliable browser caching rather than doing
anything SWFfy.) Or do you see them taking some direct action, saying,
"Yes, this is something I'll want to view later on the train." (If so, then
it seems they might as well do a "Save" as anything else.)
Some browsers have a "package as archive" option for the entire contents of
a web page... others have big local caches as a default... these might be
simpler than creating all those native-code executable files and telling
people they're safe to download and run, assuming they can find it later on
their hard drive, yes...?
jd
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