Ticket #6979 (new defect)

Opened 2 months ago

Last modified 2 days ago

New "Astro" Flash Player 10 (Beta) breaks the media uploader

Reported by: tcloer Assigned to: anonymous
Priority: lowest Milestone: 2.6
Component: Administration Version: 2.6
Severity: trivial Keywords: adobe, flash, astro, fp 10
Cc:

Description

Adobe has released a beta of the new Flash Player 10 "Astro" at Adobe Labs. http://www.adobe.com/go/astro

Once this is installed, the Flash-based media uploader in 2.5.x stops working.

Change History

(follow-up: ↓ 2 ) 05/15/08 20:05:15 changed by zamoose

  • priority changed from normal to lowest.
  • version changed from 2.5.1 to 2.6.
  • component changed from General to Administration.
  • severity changed from normal to trivial.
  • milestone changed from 2.7 to 2.6.

Sounds like an Adobe issue, not a WordPress one.

(in reply to: ↑ 1 ) 05/15/08 20:16:06 changed by tcloer

Replying to zamoose:

Sounds like an Adobe issue, not a WordPress one.

I don't think so. After Flash Player 9 came out, 62% of the installed base upgraded in the first three months. I bet this will happen with FP 10 as well. So maybe someone should at least take a look at the changes in the new version and see if the WordPress uploader could be adapted accordingly...

05/15/08 20:26:49 changed by zamoose

Except it's a beta release. No sense spinning any wheels until

  1. 10 is actually released
  2. We have evidence that the final is messing up the uploader
  3. We can verify that the changes will not affect users staying at Flash 9

05/16/08 01:06:37 changed by DD32

As the Flash uploader is a External application, They'll release a new release to stay up to date, I do not believe WordPress itself will have to change anything (Other than to include the latest release in the next WP release)

http://swfupload.org/forum/generaldiscussion/532

I've installed the FP 10 beta and found that SWFUpload does not work. We'll be working on this and will probably have another v2 release before Flash Player 10 is released.

07/03/08 15:22:47 changed by Otto42

Update: http://swfupload.org/forum/generaldiscussion/551

Adobe may have to bring this functionality back into Flash 10 before release, as the changes in Flash 10 kills the possibilities of flash-based file uploaders.