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>>Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] are the wheels off the Flash Player wagon?
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>>I'm afraid they dont validate the Flash player There is no code in
>>that page (client side) to do this I think it's a fix message !
I'm afraid they dont validate the Flash player There is no code in
that page (client side) to do this I think it's a fix message !
Kind of poor for a big company like that!
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Count Schemula wrote:
Explore the latest generation BMW M5 ->
-Flash 7 player is required to view this site.
Explore the latest generation BMW M5 ->
-Flash 7 player is required to view this site. To download Flash 7, click here.
This is AFTER it checked my player, so I should have went right to the
microsite. At first, it was not obvious to me that I could proceed
despite the "warning" and I moved on si
I have the same configuration as yours and everything is ok!
link:
http://www.bmwusa.com/BMW2003/Templates/MicroSiteHandlerNew3.aspx?NRMODE=Published&NRORIGINALURL=%2fnewM5%2ehtm&NRNODEGUID=%7b842F8706-6EE2-4A57-B409-4FADB716F1E8%7d&NRCACHEHINT=Guest&bhcp=1
Maybe they fixed their code?
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Co
Ok cool, I think I missed your point the first time ;-) Looking back it is
there plain as day. The BMW website engineers are asleep at the wheel!
On 10/28/05, Count Schemula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I know that FP8 can do FP7, but the net effect is, websites are out there
> messing up view
I know that FP8 can do FP7, but the net effect is, websites are out there
messing up viewer access/experiences over dodgy detection scripts.
Actually, I kept messing with it and it let me continue past the warning,
but it was far from obvious that I could do so.
On 10/27/05, Julian Suggate <[EMAI
Dude, I'm pretty sure that the BMW website does that because of a bodgy
detection script rather than the site actually "requiring" Player7. Player8
can handle anything that Player7 could (aka backwards compatibility). In
pseudocode, it sounds like the detection script is checking that (version ==
7
I just went to the BMW website, and got ready to "explore the new M5."
Win XP
Firefox 1.0.7
Flash Player 8
The website checks my "extended capabilities" and blocks my progress and
tells me that I need Flash Player 7 to view the website.
Sigh.
The more things change, the more things seem like 19
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