> but, since the fileformat hasn't changed, in theory, you 
> could ...

As I said in my email, the Xtra functions under the version 10 player
only so if you have a D10 created stub then the Xtra will work with that
projector and any movies it loads & plays. If you're the sort that wants
to author in Director MX and either hope that things work against a D10
stub, or are willing to do all your debug work via a D10 projector then
sure you could do as you described. Whether that's advisable is a
different story and that's up to you to decide.

This isn't a new story though. Let's say all you had was Director 8
which offers Flash 4 support. But you really wanted to use a Flash 6 SWF
and Flash 6-specific functionality, you could blindly author and hope
using Director 8, then get a Director MX stub-projector with the MX-era
Flash Asset (it offers Flash 6 support) and go from there in the same
way. So your technique isn't new or different in any way, each player
version can load and play older files regardless of file format changes
and whatnot (the greater the version delta the riskier that gets but
even Shockwave today can handle DCRs from nearly 10 years ago).

Cheers,
Tom Higgins | Product Manager | Director & the Shockwave Player
Adobe Systems Incorporated

http://weblogs.macromedia.com/thiggins/

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