[SWFObject] SWFObject 2.0 prerelease

Geoff Stearns geoff at deconcept.com
Fri Sep 15 10:17:17 PDT 2006


so I forgot the url!

all the updated files are here:

http://blog.deconcept.com/code/swfobject2.0/



On Sep 15, 2006, at 1:12 PM, Geoff Stearns wrote:

> Hey all... had a great time at Flash Forward, and had some free  
> time on the plane ride back, so I decided to start working on  
> SWFObject 2.0.
>
> the main change here is how the expressinstall stuff works - it  
> will now use a separate swf instead of making you edit your fla.  
> this was needed because of AS3 - you can't mix AS2 swfs and AS3  
> swfs together, so it needed to be a separate swf.
>
> this has made expressinstall much easier to implement.
>
> the only api change so far is this:
>
> when using expressinstall, you no longer pass a 'true' parameter  
> after the background color - you now use the so.useExpressInstall()  
> method and pass in the path to your expressinstall.swf (included  
> now with swfobject)
>
> for an example of this in action, see:
> http://blog.deconcept.com/code/swfobject2.0/expressinstall.html
>
> because of these changes, the expressinstall as code is an as2  
> class once again, so it will help clean up your code a bit as well.  
> (even though you shouldn't need to recompile the expressinstall swf  
> ever anyway.
>
>
> so what i'd like from you all here, is to test this out, and then  
> test it some more. open it up in every browser + flash player  
> combination you can think of, and tell me if it breaks in any  
> browsers. i'm especially interested in the expressinstall flow -  
> uninstall your flash player and downgrade to 6.0.65 and 7 and see  
> if you can get it to work, and if you have any issues with it.
>
> this version should also fix the crashes some users are reporting  
> when using flash player 6.
>
> i'm also interested in new feature requests - so if you have ideas  
> for new features, or even just functionality or API changes, now is  
> the time to get them heard.
>
>
>
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