After many months (even years) of waiting we finally have some information from Adobe on when the infamous FP-40 bug should be fixed. As an Adobe employee posted a few days ago: “I did a little investigation and confirmed this is fixed and will be available in the Flash Player 10.1 Beta to be released later this year.”
I’m tempted to say: “Good for the Flash community and the Linux world!”, but Adobe’s decision to not communicate any details around the issue for such a long time makes it very hard for me to say anything positive. Would it be too sarcastic to say that the Microsoft support seems to be pro-active compared to Adobe behavior in this case, but then – I’ve made my experiences with customer support and “open communication” when it comes to U.S. based technology companies.
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Wonder what the Adobe/Macromedia experience is like in 2009? Here’s quote from one of the frustrated customers commenting on the FP-40 issue:
I have posted an GetSatisfaction customer request for Adobe asking why is this bug not fixed. It has been ignored for 9 months now.
http://getsatisfaction.com/adobe/topics/why_doesnt_flash_support_international_characters_on_linu
With this kind of experience, I have just one more motivation to say: “The quicker Flash fades away, the better for all of us.” HTML5 and CSS3 will give us many of the features Flash offers right now. I’m not totally opposed to proprietary plug-ins, but I’m not up to more Adobe Flash FP-40 experience.
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hi Raju,
yes I heard that too. Unfortunately with Flash Player 10.1 RTMPT-Connection do not seem to work. Or at least non FMS-Servers could not work. Either Bug or they have changed the handshake again:
http://old.nabble.com/rtmpt-does-not-work-with-latest-Flash-Player-10.1-beta-on-OSx-td26756506.html
Another real annoying thing on OSx is that you can hardly watch videos and unfortunately I do not see improvements with 10.1.
http://wagner-sebastian.com/wordpress/2009/12/14/when-will-h264-and-video-ever-really-work-on-osx-with-adobe-flash-player/