Older Flash plug-in?
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- TwinLobe
Howdy...
I'm running a WIN 2000 machine w/IE 5.5 for testing purposes and have a problem viewing Flash 4 content:
I always get prompted to upgrade to Flash 6 even though pages are coded for v.4.
Initially I thought it was a browser issue, so I upgraded from IE 5.00 to 5.5 via evolt.org. However nothing has changed.
Could this be an Activex problem? How can I reinstall the Flash 4 version of the plug-in?
ANY help would be greatly appreciated!
Gracias.
- ********0
this might help you:
- TwinLobe0
Thanks. I actually found this page & downloaded the v.4 player for IE, but can't seem to install the plug-in.
Anyone had experience with .ocx files? There's supposed to be a "Macromed" directory within C:WINNTSYSTEM32 but there isn't on my machine. (I'm sure this is part of the problem...)
- TwinLobe0
Anyone?
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- TwinLobe0
Surely someone has had this experience with Flash & .ocx files, right?
Please help a brotha out...
;-)
- joyride0
What is the page that the flash is embedded in coded for? That usually is the problem.
If you post an example I can take a look at it.
- uffa0
Even though the SWF is coded as flash 4, you are embedding it into the page at Flash 6. If you use dreamweaver MX, it automatically embeds the flash and inserts code telling the client that Flash 6 is required.. you can fix this by hand editing the following line of code
codebase="http://download.macrom...
notice the "version=6,0,29,0"
you just need to change this to
"version=4,0,0,0"
You'd think DW would be smart enough to check the version of the flash, but it's not.
- TwinLobe0
Thanks... but the HTML ain't the problem.
I'm getting prompted to upgrade to v.6 regardless of the specific web page. This is not happening with Mozilla or NS4 on the same machine though...
So I figure the problem lies with the plugin for IE itself. The problem is I want to keep Flash v.4 & IE 5.5 since it's my testing environment.
- TwinLobe0
Anyone else have any suggestions?
Pleeease....
:-)