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To: Twizlre who wrote (2173)	4/21/1998 10:29:00 PM
From: John Dowdell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2675

Tim Hawkins wrote, in parts: "I experienced some bugs ( the inability to import external files for an example. )" Tim, if you could describe the file format, the originating app, and the export options chosen (colordepth, compression etc) in the Flash newsgroup on the Macromedia website, then that would be greatly appreciated, thanks. Although Flash 3 is in public beta, I cannot yet place symptoms of import difficulties myself... sorry, no matches offhand for that "can't import" problem. (If you could publish that file to your website then that would be even better, thanks, because then we could incorporate it into the testing routine.) "But at this time a plug-in is needed to view a flash animation. And flash3 needs a new plug-in that is buggy." Only plugin-related issues I've seen so far include: -- Some Cyrix chips misidentify their MMX capabilities, and so will fail with the first release of the Flash 3 plugin. (The plugin now on the website does a special test for those older chips and will work well.) -- Some older Netscape/Mac browsers have difficulty identifying the new MIME type handler. (Instructions for poking the browser are on the Flash 3 plugin's download page.) -- I've seen a few posts about some ActiveX Controls crashing, but I don't yet know enough about the differences on those systems to be able to identify the critical element. (Check in on the Flash newsgroup, where we're trying to pull details on the possible system differences in those failures.) -- To defer the Netscape 4 browsers' late loading of Java, you'll now need an "swLiveConnect=TRUE" parameter passed into the HTML if you're using JavaScript-to-Flash communication in those browsers. By the way, if you haven't done so already, then please do take advantage of the free Aftershock utility on the Macromedia website. This lets you choose among media-substitution schemes for browsers that are not yet multimedia-enabled... you can substitute the Flash Java Player or even an animated GIF if the browser cannot play native multimedia content, if you wish. (In other words, no plugin is necessary, although that will continue to give you the best performance.) I'm glad you like Flash 3, and I hope you build beautiful and profitable things with it. Regards, John Dowdell Macromedia Tech Support