Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 13:17:25 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: garycorc@idt.net (Gary T. Corcoran) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complaining at Warner Brothers? Message-ID: <199706150347.NAA02011@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <33A35D34.2F1CF0FB@idt.net> from "Gary T. Corcoran" at "Jun 14, 97 11:10:44 pm"
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Gary T. Corcoran stands accused of saying: > Michael Smith wrote: > > > > Amancio Hasty stands accused of saying: > > > Is there a shockwave plug in for FreeBSD? > > > > You gotta be joking! BSD/OS netscape doesn't even support plugins 8( > > This isn't true - unless you define 'plugin' differently than I do... > I have and use the RealAudio 'plugin' for BSD Netscape. They're also > known as "helper applications"... Ok, I should be more specific. "Helper applications" such as the RA player, Acrobat Reader, etc. are just that; separate applications. "Plugins" are shared libraries which, when loaded become part of Netscape, eg. Shockwave, the Tcl plugin, etc. All netscape versions support helper applications. The BSD/OS binary of Netscape does _NOT_ support plugins. Jordan knows more about this, but basically Netscape claimed that BSD/OS didn't support the dlopen() functionality that they required (not true, incidentally). > Nevertheless, this doesn't change the fact that AFAIK there isn't a > shockwave plugin for *BSD. So much for 'standardized' communications... Yeah. I finally _did_ manage to get a look at the WB stuff I was chasing, and I have to say that on the whole, I was better off _not_ being able to see it; Shockwave, or at least their use of it, is total crap. I remember doing better animations than that on my old Atari. And don't get me started about people that assume your window is some fixed size. *puke* -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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