[SWFObject] Best practices for installation

[Michael Tighe]

This might be of use or relevance:

What we are building is a 'prep' page as it were to make people more aware
of the exciting reasons they should upgrade to flash.

Call it service netting. Instead of just pushing them to install flash just
because they need it, we are taking the time to tell them why and assure
them it is exciting and wonderful - improving the overall user experience.

It creates a much more positive spin before directing them to the Adobe page
which pushes not so great Yahoo tool bars on the user.

I have abandoned express install, after 15+ hours trying to get it to work
properly I think it is a (sorry to say) poor implementation of an upgrade
service.

Cheers,
Michael

On 7/28/06, Cosmic <cosmic at cosmic-groove.net> wrote:
>
> have people been seeing extremely long connect times for the express
> install? I have been seeing connect times up to like 2-5 minutes lately.
> Does anyone know why this is?
> Thanks
>
> Peter
>
> On Jul 28, 2006, at 11:57 AM, Geoff Stearns wrote:
>
> yeah you could try that... i would really recommend just directing them to
> the adobe site and using expressinstall... that way most people will be
> upgraded right there (with no activex window popup) or they just go to adobe
> and get it from them.
>
>
>
> On Jul 28, 2006, at 11:48 AM, Brian Smithson wrote:
>
> That is great advice, Geoff - thanks. So do you just include 'flash not
> here' content with the link and instructions to refresh the page when the
> download is done?
>
> -Brian
>
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> *From:* Geoff Stearns [mailto:geoff at deconcept.com <geoff at deconcept.com>]
> *Sent:* Friday, July 28, 2006 11:38 AM
> *To:* swfobject at lists.deconcept.com
> *Subject:* Re: [SWFObject] Best practices for installation
>
>  i suggest using a normal object/embed tag if you want to force a activex
> install on your site....
>
> then when the install finishes, just send them back to the original page
> and swfobject should see that they now have the correct version installed.
>
> i normally don't like doing hte activex installs anymore.. too many people
> think it's spyware and might just leave when they see that box pop up. not
> to mention the little yellow bar they have to click. sending them to the
> adobe site seems more trustworthy to me (although i do hate that they bundle
> the yh toolbar with it now - but at least it's optional and only IE users
> get offered it)
>
>
>
>
>  On Jul 28, 2006, at 11:23 AM, Brian Smithson wrote:
>
>  Good morning!
>
> We stumbled across this library earlier this week and it looks very very
> promising to solve a lot of the cross-browser flash problems we've been
> running into. But after searching through the archives of this list and the
> blogs, I still have a very newbie question.
>
> I can see how I can check versions against the one I require, and build
> the alternate content to direct the user to a download. But it seems we lose
> the nice automagic installation we get with the object tag method. That is,
> once we direct the user to download the right version of Flash, what's the
> best way to get our stuff to reload and display now that flash is there?
> Page refresh?
>
> And a related question - is there a URL to download flash that doesn't
> suggest the nasty Yahoo toolbar?
>
> Thanks so much for a great tool!
>
> -Brian
>
>
> *Brian Smithson*
> Product Manager
> Insignia Group, LC
> Providers of oeaccessories.com
> 704-588-0142 x8604
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