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Hi Aaron,
        Sounds like an excellent idea to me.  Should I implement that, and
then send another patch to the list (since I don't have commit rights
on the repo)?

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 02:28 PM, Aaron Brown wrote:
> Hey Jordan,
> 
> Would it be possible to get a warning stuck in the results page as
> well?
> 
> Cheers, Aaron
> 
> On Nov 7, 2014, at 2:25 PM, Jordan McCarthy
> <>
>  wrote:
> 
> 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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