Over in a thread on the ApolloCoders list<http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/apollocoders/message/1577>, Marcel Panse asked: is the firefox plugin different from the IE player.. or do the plugins just point to the same player?
I am curious too. Does anyone here know? I always thought there was a separate plug-in for Mozilla/Firefox and an ActiveX control for IE<http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14157&sliceId=2>. And looking at this post by Tinoc Uro about the Flash Player build process<http://www.kaourantin.net/2006/07/builds-builds-and-more-builds.html>seems to support that there are separate builds (on Win32: NPSWF32.dll for Mozilla/Firefox, and Flash.ocx for IE). But I just confirmed that IE, Firefox and Mozilla do intercommunicate by running the Examples in the docs for LocalConnection<http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/net/LocalConnection.html>and SharedObject<http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/net/SharedObject.html>. Meaning LocalConnections do communicate between SWFs running in different host browsers, and SharedObjects are shared between SWFs running in different host browsers. So even if the plug-in and ActiveX control are different, as a practical matter, from the perspective of Flash developers at runtime they act as if they are the same? btw ... As a possibly interesting side note, the Flex 3 version of the AS3 Language Reference for LocalConnection<http://livedocs.adobe.com/labs/flex/3/langref/flash/net/LocalConnection.html>includes the following: The communication can be: ... - Between content (SWF-based or HTML-based) in an AIR application and SWF content running in a browser Any insights would be appreciated. g _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
