[SWFObject] Best practices for installation

[Michael Williams]

This is because MySpace is using Express Install to force all of there users to Flash Player 9 for security reasons. This is causing the Macromedia servers that drive express install to run particularly slow. It is hard for us to actually reduce the traffic given that Myspace is #1 or #2 in the US with respect to traffic. So we are currently being a victim of the success of Express Install. It's acutally TOO easy to use and now the servers are getting slow.

We are working on improving the situation, but it may be slow for a few more weeks.

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Michael


-----Original Message-----
From: swfobject-bounces at lists.deconcept.com on behalf of Cosmic
Sent: Fri 7/28/2006 10:27 AM
To: swfobject at lists.deconcept.com
Subject: Re: [SWFObject] Best practices for installation
 
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
>>
>> From: Geoff Stearns [mailto: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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