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Flash Audio IE7 Bug: Open Letter to Adobe

Hi, Adobe Flash Player Development Team.  Let me open with a positive statement that is not at all token in nature: you people rock.  Both in general and in the specifics.  Really, you do.  You have created something that has changed the world for the better, and has allowed some great software to be built.  Needless to say, I couldn’t do what I’m doing without you. I thank you for that.

Nothing’s perfect, though, eh?  That’s why we all have bug databases.  And I further applaud you for opening yours up to the public, which takes a real dedication to openness and also some serious resources to maintain.  Now, about that nasty FP-985 bug…

FP-nine-eighty… what? What’s that one, you say?  It’s all right. I understand.  You have many bugs and many important customers.  Let me remind you, all the while retaining my pleasant, smiling demeanor.

It’s the one that crashes IE7 if you have Flash applications in more than one window which use the wonderful brand-spanking-new dynamic audio API that was rolled into Flash 10 at the eleventh hour.  You know, the bug that cripples the API which finally allows Flash applications (like mine and many others) to synthesize sound, not just play back canned audio clips. The bug that cripples the API which begins to put the audible on a par with the visible in the Flash platform.

Yeah, that bug.

Please fix this crasher.  I’m asking nicely.  Please.

If the Bitmap class crashed IE, I know you’d be all over it.  If ColorTransforms crashed IE, you’d be all over it.  Well, Sounds crash IE.  So…

…thanking you in advance…

... .  .    .       j

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