LDEV-2026 Proper solution for bad encoding integrated. The problem lay in the fact that strings were not urlEncoded when passed from Flash to Javascript. Url encoding and decoding are now taken care of both in on the Flash-side and JS-side.
NOTE: When a Flash movie is being run in IE, urlEncoding seems to be automatic. Therefore, if Flash is being run in IE, no urlEncoding is done on the Flash-side. For all other browsers urlEncoding is done.
LDEV-2022 Presence now loading in all browsers, flash and flashless interfaces Rooms were being created on the fly as a first user joined a lesson. If this first user happened to be using IE, no other users afterwards would be able to join. Rooms are created immediately from the wizard module now, through a servlet call to smack, which solves the problem.