[thelist] Flash install problem - IE 5.1 / Mac OS 8/9

John Dowdell jdowdell at macromedia.com
Thu Dec 20 15:03:11 CST 2001


At 7:29 AM 12/20/1, Mark Howells wrote:
> Anyone from Macromedia reading this? Can you shed some light on the problem?

I already replied in the other thread, but because this is a breaking issue
I'll paste the reply in to this thread too, in case people are sorting by
title as I am:

>Sorry, that new Classic browser identifies itself the same as the
>corresponding Native browser. The auto-detect routine is giving you the
>Native plugin rather than the Classic.
>
>Folks on the site are rewriting the auto-detection to differentiate these
>two distinct codebases, but until then you can get the Classic plugin here:
>http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates/
>
>(I don't expect that this will affect many other browser-detection
>routines, because few need to distinguish MacOS 9.x from MacOS 10.x.)








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