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07.12.05 | Flash Player 8 Public Beta

Posted by Todd Dominey at 8:23 AM | Permalink | More of this topic in General News

In case you didn't notice, Macromedia has released a public beta of Flash Player 8 for Windows and OS X. I've checked out SlideShowPro using players on both platforms, and everything appears to work fine.

Word to the wise -- now that a new Flash Player is circulating, make sure your web pages (if they have Flash player detection) are configured to support version 8 of the Flash Player. Lord knows how many times I've visited a web site to find they're explicitly detecting the latest Flash player (in this case Flash Player 7), and not anything newer, and won't let you past the gate.

So if you're using a third party JavaScript file, test it out using the public beta player immediately. For those of you using FlashObject to embed your movie, you have nothing to be concerned about. It works.