Leopard Attacks
Posted by caseyrayl on October 31, 2007
I am one of the many, many Flash developers hit by the now infamous Leopard upload bug. I don’t have a complete solution for anyone but I do have a small amount of advice on how you can get your apps to at least fail gracefully when faced with this game breaking bug.
In AS3 you can use the Capabilities class to detect the operating system your user is running. In Leopards case, the Capabilites.os property will have the exact value “Mac OS 10.5.0”. Once you are aware, you can then do whatever it is that might be appropriate for your app.
Hopefully this bug won’t be around long, but until it is fixed, happy cajoling!
-Casey
