{"id":826,"date":"2011-09-08T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/?p=826"},"modified":"2025-02-01T03:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:04:14","slug":"flash-player-updating-on-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/2011\/09\/08\/flash-player-updating-on-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash player updating on Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flash Player on the Mac is always in need of an update &#8211; or so it seems.<br \/>\nOne particular problem is that the current update checking system seems to merely displays a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/software\/flash\/about\/\">web page with the current version numbers<\/a>. That page also appears to contain no direct download links at all. The page it should link to is the <a href=\"http:\/\/get.adobe.com\/flashplayer\/\">Flash download page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What it should ideally do is to automatically update using Sparkle or similar. I don&#8217;t want it to check constantly in the background, simply check and update when I click the &#8220;check Now&#8221; button.<\/p>\n<p>Failing that, it should clearly state whether the current installation is up-to-date or not.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t want to have to compare version numbers on a page that lists 8 different product version numbers. The software knows which variant it is, its own version number and a web service can be provided to display the latest numbers. It&#8217;s trivial to download the latest version number and test to see if it is the same as the installed version, then provide a direct download link if it isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>In fairness some progress has been made in flash installing, at least they now include a standard pkg installer and progress is being made on providing release notes. But much more progress (or the demise of Flash) is still clearly needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flash Player on the Mac is always in need of an update &#8211; or so it seems. One particular problem is that the current update checking system seems to merely displays a web page with the current version numbers. That page also appears to contain no direct download links at all. The page it should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-macintosh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1330,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}