Comments on: BBC iPlayer 2 Goes to Live Beta http://blog.barncar.com/?p=22 Just another flash platform blog Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:41:21 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: mattjpoole http://blog.barncar.com/?p=22&cpage=1#comment-10 mattjpoole Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:17:34 +0000 http://blog.barncar.com/?p=22#comment-10 Hi Mike, Thanks for your comments. I can only realy speak for the EMP team. Though as with all large corporations things can move very slowly - there is no single standard for implementing flash across the BBC worldwide its up to individual teams largly - in fact the EMP has won an award purely on the fact that its gotten so much adoption throughout the BBC. The issue with Flash Player 10 has been discussed in the BBC flash community (which is as strong and committed as the rest of the flash community) as far as I know though it may not be supported until it gets released. I can only recommend you uninstall the BETA in at least one browser while you browse the BBC site. In the mean time I'll see if we are able to support Flash 10 Beta for the EMP - though dont hold you breath. One final point: my views are very definately my own and do not represent the BBC in anyway unless specifically stated. Hi Mike,

Thanks for your comments.

I can only realy speak for the EMP team. Though as with all large corporations things can move very slowly – there is no single standard for implementing flash across the BBC worldwide its up to individual teams largly – in fact the EMP has won an award purely on the fact that its gotten so much adoption throughout the BBC.

The issue with Flash Player 10 has been discussed in the BBC flash community (which is as strong and committed as the rest of the flash community) as far as I know though it may not be supported until it gets released. I can only recommend you uninstall the BETA in at least one browser while you browse the BBC site.

In the mean time I’ll see if we are able to support Flash 10 Beta for the EMP – though dont hold you breath.

One final point: my views are very definately my own and do not represent the BBC in anyway unless specifically stated.

]]> By: mike d http://blog.barncar.com/?p=22&cpage=1#comment-9 mike d Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:28:23 +0000 http://blog.barncar.com/?p=22#comment-9 How about you get your team to fix the noob mistakes in pretty much ALL flash on the bbc site - detecting player version incorrectly. If you have player version 10 beta, you get an idiot error saying your flash player isn't up to date. I'd expect better on code basics considering the bbc website spend of £74 million, of which millions are over budget and coming from the public's pockets to fund incompetent developers. And while I'm at it, here's hoping the imbecile tech support for the bbc website (who I reported this to ages ago and got a stock reply to 'upgrade my browser') all get the chop and save a million or so of wasted tax payers money. Tech support that can't actually support and don't know their arse from their elbow? Sack them all! How about you get your team to fix the noob mistakes in pretty much ALL flash on the bbc site – detecting player version incorrectly. If you have player version 10 beta, you get an idiot error saying your flash player isn’t up to date. I’d expect better on code basics considering the bbc website spend of £74 million, of which millions are over budget and coming from the public’s pockets to fund incompetent developers. And while I’m at it, here’s hoping the imbecile tech support for the bbc website (who I reported this to ages ago and got a stock reply to ‘upgrade my browser’) all get the chop and save a million or so of wasted tax payers money. Tech support that can’t actually support and don’t know their arse from their elbow? Sack them all!

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