Comments on: You’ve got standardised mail

By: Maryrose Lyons

Maryrose Lyons — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:46:03 +0000

Thanks Paddy and Kamrul… good to know.

By: Paddy

Paddy — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:39:34 +0000

I found out the liscense restriction only applies to free Adobe web player, developers need the Macromedia Flash Player SDK (http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/productinfo/faq/#item-3-4) which is now Adobe Flash Lite 3 (http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer_sdk/).

Cheers for the info Kamrul!

By: Maryrose Lyons

Maryrose Lyons — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 08:22:57 +0000

Me too… I don’t think Adobe knows what they want to do… sounds to me like someone *bright* came up with this clause and has since left the company!!

By: Paddy

Paddy — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:04:14 +0000

I had a look at that, I’m not too sure, I know director was more commonly used for kiosks and such but has been disbanded now. I don’t know what prerogative Adobe would have to restrict the use of Flash either, I’d assume there would be a licence to allow it to be used that way but I havenâ€™t been able to find anything on it…

I contacted Adobe, but I’m not awaiting a reply anytime soon!

By: Maryrose Lyons

Maryrose Lyons — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:42:11 +0000

Cheers Paddy for bringing this to everyone’s attention. With email templates we’re stuck in 1999 in terms of design, but can I draw your attention also to a similar issue in relation to the use of Flash on kiosks, and large screens?

Adobe has a clause in its T&C’s that says that you are breaking the terms of your license if you use Flash on kiosks or other electronic devices … It seems that you’re OK if you’re using a very old version of Flash… more info is here: http://screenmedia.wordpress.com/2007/06/12/arrrrr-ye-scurvy-flash-pirating-dogs/

So once again, it’s looking like we’re being forced to unlearn and un-use newer versions of Flash in order to be compliant.

Anyone got any thoughts on this? How to get around it? I’d love to know.

By: Paddy

Paddy — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 16:40:39 +0000

Thanks Peter, the link’s patched up.

Kamrul, wordpress wouldn’t be the same without you!

By: Peter Knight

Peter Knight — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:05:57 +0000

Sidenote 2: URL to standards site is missing a ‘p’ in the ‘http’.

By: Kamrul

Kamrul — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 04:21:19 +0000

Paddy looks like WYSIWYG editor was adding some extra char on page title Not anymore though.

By: Paddy

Paddy — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:34:52 +0000

Cheers for the title spot, that’s pretty odd…

By: Michele

Michele — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:13:15 +0000

I used to teach English to a guy who was in charge of the newsletter for a large Italian publisher and he was constantly struggling with it.

On a sidenote your page title looks completely b0rked