Which Internet Explorer version is required by each FlashPlayer version?

[DarrenEvans <da...@allocatesoftware.com>]

We are currently running Flex SDK 4.6 and have rolled out FlashPlayer 11.1 to
our clients.

We want to support the native right-click customisation functionality
introduced in 11.2. We also have a requirement to support IE7. 

Looking through the release notes for each version, when I look at 11.2 and
11.3 I see a nice little system requirements section listing browser
requirements (lovely). From 11.4 onwards the release notes system
requirements section just has a link to the latest requirements which is of
absolutely no use to me as I really don't need that information!!!

How can I find the browser requirements for each version of FlashPlayer?



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Re: Which Internet Explorer version is required by each FlashPlayer version?

[jude <fl...@gmail.com>]

Flash has typically not had a required browser version or it's been very
low. Since it's a plugin it runs in it's own sand box so to speak. The only
requirements I would think would be if a Flash Player version required
specific API's of the NPAPI and PPAPI plugin formats.

Just recently Flash Player has added support for browser zoom, (Improved
Resolution of Stage3D Content on Browser Zoom). This is the first time I've
seen FP require a newer browser in as long as I can remember. However it's
not required to have this browser it's only required if you need this
feature.

>From the Adobe FP blog:

As of FP 15, the above feature is only available for Internet Explorer on
Windows 8.x.  Feature availability on other browsers and OSes is currently
being investigated.  Browsers based the NPAPI plug-in (eg, Firefox, Safari)
will not support this feature due to lack of plug-in APIs for retrieving
the browser zoom value.  Support for browsers based on the PPAPI plug-in
(eg, Chrome) is being considered for a near future version of FP. On
browser platforms that do not support this feature, the
Event.BROWSER_ZOOM_CHANGE event will not fire, the return value of
Stage.browserZoomFactor will not change, and setting of the
wantsBestResolutionOnBrowserZoom parameter will have no effect. [1]

[1]
http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2014/09/improved-resolution-of-stage3d-content-on-browser-zoom.html#more-6562

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 11:20 AM, DarrenEvans <
darren.evans@allocatesoftware.com> wrote:

> So for prosperity and incase anyone else needs this information.....
>
> After a bit of VM jiggery pokery and some looking back through archived
> Adobe pages. I'm assuming Adobe just dropped support for IE7 at either
> FlashPlayer 13 (maybe 12, as I couldn't find an archive of the requirements
> page for 12).
>
> However, having set up an XP/IE7 environment and installing 11.7,
> 12.0.0.77,
> 13.0.0.244, 14.0.0.176, 15.0.0.167 sequentially expecting a failure at some
> point I can report that all versions work with IE7!
>
>
> Alex Harui wrote
> > Don't know for sure.  You could try filing a bug at bugbase.adobe.com
> > about the release notes.
> >
> > HTH,
> > -Alex
>
>
>
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Re: Which Internet Explorer version is required by each FlashPlayer version?

[DarrenEvans <da...@allocatesoftware.com>]

So for prosperity and incase anyone else needs this information.....

After a bit of VM jiggery pokery and some looking back through archived
Adobe pages. I'm assuming Adobe just dropped support for IE7 at either
FlashPlayer 13 (maybe 12, as I couldn't find an archive of the requirements
page for 12). 

However, having set up an XP/IE7 environment and installing 11.7, 12.0.0.77,
13.0.0.244, 14.0.0.176, 15.0.0.167 sequentially expecting a failure at some
point I can report that all versions work with IE7!


Alex Harui wrote
> Don't know for sure.  You could try filing a bug at bugbase.adobe.com
> about the release notes.
> 
> HTH,
> -Alex





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Re: Which Internet Explorer version is required by each FlashPlayer version?

[Alex Harui <ah...@adobe.com>]

Don't know for sure.  You could try filing a bug at bugbase.adobe.com
about the release notes.

HTH,
-Alex

On 9/26/14 7:00 AM, "DarrenEvans" <da...@allocatesoftware.com>
wrote:

>We are currently running Flex SDK 4.6 and have rolled out FlashPlayer
>11.1 to
>our clients.
>
>We want to support the native right-click customisation functionality
>introduced in 11.2. We also have a requirement to support IE7.
>
>Looking through the release notes for each version, when I look at 11.2
>and
>11.3 I see a nice little system requirements section listing browser
>requirements (lovely). From 11.4 onwards the release notes system
>requirements section just has a link to the latest requirements which is
>of
>absolutely no use to me as I really don't need that information!!!
>
>How can I find the browser requirements for each version of FlashPlayer?
>
>
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