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[Jordan McCarthy <>]

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Hi Aaron,
        Yes indeed: in all three cases, a red warning message is displayed
describing the problem.  I forgot to mention that you can see examples
of the three states here:

a. http://files.opentechinstitute.org/~mccarthy/flash-warn.html
b. http://files.opentechinstitute.org/~mccarthy/flash-warn-limit.html
c. http://files.opentechinstitute.org/~mccarthy/error.html

Regards,
Jordan

Jordan McCarthy
Open Technology Institute | New America Foundation
Public Key: 0xC08D8042 | 4A61 3D39 4125 127D 65EA DDC2 BFBD A2E9 C08D 8042

On 11/07/2014 02:11 PM, Aaron Brown wrote:
> Hey Jordan,
> 
> In the (a) case, does it spit out an error telling people that
> there’s a problem, or does it just go on as though everything is
> fine?
> 
> Cheers, Aaron
> 
> On Nov 7, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Jordan McCarthy
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure if this should be handled separately, but the M-Lab
> team has a series of changes that we would like to add to the flash
> client to handle the fact that the Adobe flash runtime for Mac OS X
> and Linux is severely performance-limited.
> 
> Here's the description of what we did:
> 
> Our  patch (attached) adds a customizable feature for dealing with 
> performance-limited flash runtimes.  In a nutshell, the patch
> allows anyone who hosts an NDT test to specify (via an HTML
> parameter) whether performance-limited flash runtimes should (a) be
> treated the same as non-limited ones, (b) only be allowed to run
> against a "fallback" server, or (c) not allowed to run the NDT test
> via flash at all.  Measurement Lab will generally use option (c),
> because we are primarily interested in identifying and measuring
> bottlenecks in the performance of networks, rather than clients.
> However, we completely understand the argument that some
> researchers might actually want the speed limitations introduced by
> particular runtimes to be captured in experimental data, and our
> patch makes it very easy to switch between these two approaches,
> depending on experimenters' needs.
> 
> The patch has been tested extensively on all major web browsers on 
> Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and appears to work well in all 
> environments except for Safari (where the flash client doesn't work
> at all).
> 
> 
> Thanks, Jordan
> 
> Jordan McCarthy Open Technology Institute | New America Foundation 
> Public Key: 0xC08D8042 | 4A61 3D39 4125 127D 65EA DDC2 BFBD A2E9
> C08D 8042
> 
> On 11/07/2014 11:00 AM, 
> 
>  wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Comment #3 on issue 162 by 
>>>> :
>>>>  New NDT
>>>> release https://code.google.com/p/ndt/issues/detail?id=162
>>>> 
>>>> All flash client related improvements have been fixed and
>>>> changes are available on FlashClientFixes branch. Please feel
>>>> free to review them and if all will look ok then I will merge
>>>> them into trunk in nearest time.
>>>> 
>> <ndt_flash_environment_detection.patch>
> 
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