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Installing lower version of Flash player

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Finally succeeded in downgrading flash player from version 10 to flash player version 9. I had reached a point where I was pulling my hair out and then I found this gem on Adobe’s website – Technote kb402435 .

I tried the following steps to install a lower version of the flash player

  1. Uninstall all flash player versions using the flash player uninstaller
  2. Rebooted the computer
  3. Disabled access to the internet/network
  4. re-installed an older version of the flash player
  5. Rebooted the computer again

All browsers, except for Internet Explorer 7 (IE 7), accepted the flash player. IE7 as usual gave me a hard time. This was primarily because of the ActiveX used by IE.

To resolve this, all I had to do was type the following in the command line

uninstall_flash_player.exe /clean

A detailed explaination can be found at Adobe’s website – Technote kb402435 – Safe versions security restrictions when installing Flash Player (Internet Explorer on Windows).

Additional resource that may help

Technote 14157
How to uninstall the Adobe Flash Player plug-in and ActiveX control

Technote 19166
Troubleshoot Adobe Flash Player installation for Windows

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(X)HTML alt vs title attributes Vs the TITLE tag

Monday, September 8th, 2008

“alt” attributes are NOT “alt” tags.

Phew! now that it’s out of the way lets proceed.

During our team meetings, I often hear developers and designers throw in the term “alt ” tags when referring to the “alt” attribute. A few years ago, I too, used to refer to the “alt” attribute as an “alt” tag. Infact, even the Human Factors International website incorrectly refers to these attributes as tags, well, they also incorrectly refer to the “longdesc” attribute as tags.
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