On Thu, September 14, 2006 7:37 am, Martin Sammtleben wrote:
> At 10:21 -0400 14.9.2006, Colin Holgate wrote:
>>At 10:02 AM -0400 9/14/06, Slava Paperno wrote:
>>>>>Be aware that 7.1.3 also cripples all movies that use Flash media.
>>>
>>>What exactly does this mean, please? Where is this written up?
>>
>>Not sure if it is written up anywhere, but you can enable Flash
>>content in the QuickTime preferences. Just be prepared for a lot of
>>your users to be mildly confused for a while.
>
> That's putting it mildly.
>
> I wonder why this confusing decision was made, another case of patent
> infringement?
I'm not defending it - I think this was a terrible way of handling
whatever the issue was - but my guess is its a security-related issue,
just looking at the nature of the other changes in this release. Perhaps
Apple was unable to fix a buffer overflow in the Flash code, and so
decided to turn it off by default?
Just speculating of course, but it seems a bit more likely to me than a
grander conspiracy to dump interactivity. Perhaps even this was mainly
intended to limit the Quicktime plugin being used to play Flash content,
since most standalone Flash content nowadays wouldn't even work with the
QT plugin... it could be a case of unintended consequences and poor
testing (wouldn't be the first time we've seen such breakage in features
not core to Apple's focus but still used by some).
-R
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