This was a pretty big pisser today.

We were demonstrating our Facebook application, MIXX, Yesterday morning. All was fine. Today, we get an error on Facebook forcing users to upgrade their Flash version to view our application - even though it was developed for Flash 8! Even users who have Flash 9.28.00 are forced to upgrade to Flash 9.47.00 to view the application. I checked other 3rd party Facebook-Flash apps and got the same damn error for apps that worked just fine yesterday. As this error ONLY occurred on Facebook, the only assumption I can make is that Facebook is forcing an upgrade of Flash for their own purposes (Do you remember the MySpace changes to Flash to stop external linking from the Flash app.).

Not cool.

It clearly demonstrates the risks of developing an app dependent on a closed platform.