<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">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.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>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.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>this has made expressinstall much easier to implement.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>the only api change so far is this:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>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)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>for an example of this in action, see: </DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><A href="http://blog.deconcept.com/code/swfobject2.0/expressinstall.html">http://blog.deconcept.com/code/swfobject2.0/expressinstall.html</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">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.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">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.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">this version should also fix the crashes some users are reporting when using flash player 6.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">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.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>