From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 19 13:17:24 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23A1816A403 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:17:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tevans.uk@googlemail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A808013C46C for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:17:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tevans.uk@googlemail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so582265ugh for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:17:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer; b=Mt6r7X+qHkMkginQVJZ5NhZkHgYNeL2YTWGxC/g2tHso4pY1aL9T2CDk/DMb0SnUT3bHja6j9c1anZXGVkLe5GQWGU0DPvBUUUtVR/4GANE4J7IXTVVX3Bem2XzMweKi/qFWR1YyBOTQlKCpd4DFCob4pJ3/Jd4E38MYqvRITDM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=beta; h=received:subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer; b=rzh8GVyuY07lJP/pHLcI++Z2T5ZJPKPelJ2kf+5WjzZAtYZWALc85IUyQ/mHB0x6i57oPT1EmBGCAo0Bw8YsluFq6XSWzoXo3kqiIGNH28LQnM9nj9KtOY6BRPuPRvOkC04S69D+LEfxM+JC/mt8/CxrksLY2UovhPPYVwtkftg= Received: by 10.67.115.11 with SMTP id s11mr2055965ugm.1176988642330; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:17:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?127.0.0.1? ( [213.206.147.185]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id g30sm4766732ugd.2007.04.19.06.17.21; Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:17:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Evans To: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri In-Reply-To: <499c70c0704182059y41dbeb3aobf520522e94ee750@mail.gmail.com> References: <499c70c0704162200s15b0bf28oa939100c19c34b44@mail.gmail.com> <499c70c0704182059y41dbeb3aobf520522e94ee750@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-rfZxhob8Nh5QAhfyLrtA" Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:17:20 +0100 Message-Id: <1176988640.1208.5.camel@zoot.mintel.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.0 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: MS, Adobe competition heats up, Will Adobe wake and port Flash to BSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:17:24 -0000 --=-rfZxhob8Nh5QAhfyLrtA Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 06:59 +0300, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > On 4/18/07, illoai@gmail.com wrote: > > On 17/04/07, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > > . . . > > > Porting Flash to more OSes will sure will make adobe beats MS when it > > > comes to web media. > > > > I hope they kill each other and take the whole > > retch-media enhanced web experience with > > them flaming into the pit of hell from which > > they came. > > > > But that's just my opinion. > > > > References: > > http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=3Dboiling_blood >=20 > I'm sorry but rich media is a fact in the web, and you can't ignore it. >=20 > Flash is used with Yahoo! maps, and so with alot of useful apps like > stocks prices ..etc. Google Maps works just fine without flash - why would you want to constrain your viewport to some poxy applet control? If I want to watch a video, I want to use mplayer, not Firefox, >=20 > Instead of ignoring it, we should see it ported to FreeBSD. I write web applications for a living, and quite happily ignore the steaming pile of excrement that is rich media applets - the number of 3rd party browser addons whose sole purpose is to disable flash reassures me that I'm not alone in this view --=-rfZxhob8Nh5QAhfyLrtA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGJ2vXlcRvFfyds/cRAu0bAJ9FTR5w9PaVUeMFTz9PK5Co6/ufcQCfUJvM QBrLtGosoEEp6nOx2uxBuYc= =MqWk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-rfZxhob8Nh5QAhfyLrtA--