using Macromedia Flash Player 7 on Mozilla Firefox

Hello. I don't know =why=, but, each time i download Flash Player 7, with
Firefox as my brower, it doesn't seem to work. I"m on a cite,
birthdayalarms.com that requires the Flash Player, but, i can't get it to
work! Any thoughts....i've looked everywhere, googled, etc...but it won't
work on that web site. And AFAIK, it -was- downloaded onto my PC (it's in
program files).

 

Are you pulling my leg? You really do not know why?

Classic lack of specificity by someone who is markedly disharmonious.

Classic insecurity complex, as evidenced by your being moody and
hypersensitive, mistuh.

Wow, who hasn't.

But this, but that...

I like fortran the best.

 

I bet you didn't close Mozilla while installing Flash Player, right?
Anyway, read this, it's great, very informative.
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/notes.html

 

I bet you're *wrong*...i =did= close Mozilla while installing...i closed ALL
open programs...didn't help one iota.

In the meantime, i'll check out that link and let you know if there's any
change...thanks.

 

I'll sure be glad when 1) Usenet posters are charged by the use of
inappropriate periods, or 2) we figure out the planet on which
inhabitants write like that.

 

Yeah - that's one of my bad habits too. I frequently use the ellipsis to
indicate a pause...which is totally incorrect usage <g>! Same as my dash in
the first sentence. I tend to write like I talk: quite sloppily. Stand back,
or it'll get all over you.

Gee, wasn't there a fragmented sentence in there somewhere too? ;o)

 

Meanwhile, be that as it MAY, i'm still *not* able to download Flash Player
7! I have NO IDEA why it's not being allowed to download. I tried a
standalone installer, same difference. And at one point when it seemed that
i HAD downloaded and installed it (at least that's what it *said* i did) it
was nowhere to be found in Start---All Programs, and in Add/Remove programs.
I think it's time for a MAC.

 

I don't think it will show in Start/Programs. It's a web browser plug-in.
Did you go to a web page with a Flash screen to see if it plays now?

http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/welcome/

 

A *significant* pause, sure. So do I, sometimes. But not simply as
illiterate punctuation between every pair of sentences. A pause
triplet loses its meaning (SIGNIFICANT break) if it's all one uses, the
same way using all caps makes it impossible to use them to show
emphasis.

Looks like a hyphen to me. Are you aware that hyphens and dashes are
different animals (traditionally, in typesetting). Look up "dash",
"m-dash" or "em-dash", "n-dash" or "en-dash".

Probably.

 

I'm quite familiar with en-dash and em-dash, since I do some page layout
work. You are correct that the standard keyboard 'dash' is in fact a hyphen.
But in the context I used it in, I used it as a dash. Not having easy access
to an en-dash, I preceded and followed with a space. I know: poor excuse <g>

Working in Windows for layout, the em-dash '—' is alt-0151 and en-dash is
alt-0150 '–' (on the numeric keypad). I don't have that keypad easily
accessible on my laptop. Yes, I can do it. No, I usually don't want to
bother. ;o)

Heck, I don't even know if those characters will display properly on other
reader's news clients!

 

And I used some Mrs. Dash on my omelet, this morning.

Mrs. Dash is a dangerous thing. The holes in the to of the shaker are
way too big. I suspect that's a Marketing Thing, so you use it up more
quickly.

Of course I wouldn't have remembered those. And yeah, I don't ever
toggle the n-keypad in on my laptop, either.

Quite possibly not. And certainly not for those of us who use
fixed-pitch fonts, to make possible tables and other formatting.