From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 16 17:16:49 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49463106566B for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:16:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from nagual.nl (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.10.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E58368FC1B for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:16:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from westmark (westmark.nagual.nl [192.168.11.22]) by nagual.nl (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/yanta) with ESMTP id m2GHHRB1006052 for ; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:17:27 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:17:22 +0100 From: Dick Hoogendijk To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080316181722.000021e7@westmark> In-Reply-To: <20080316161534.GB25231@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <77647f500803151709y2dbe8f65jb02fb8d73b2f407d@mail.gmail.com> <200803161455.20738.ltcddata@davids-website.com> <20080316161534.GB25231@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Organization: de nagual X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-pc-solaris2.11) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 192.168.11.35 Subject: Re: state of flash on FreeBSD 7? 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: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:16:49 -0000 On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 17:15:34 +0100 Roland Smith wrote: > For youtube, you can use the www/youtube-dl port to download them, and > mplayer to play them. I just want to watch them. I've friends on youtube and kids who make movies of their 3days vacation i.e. Don't want to download them first just to look at them. It's like downloading a CD to listen to a sample to find out what's it like. Urg. > Alternatively, you can use the DownloadHelper add-on to download > videos from several sites. The same CON. > I for one am very glad to _not_ see all the annoying flash-based ads. And for me it's a handicap. It's like looking to the net through glasses that are to dark to see all. I think it's a pity fbsd people tend to ignore modern internet. Flash (or flash-like) webcontent will not go away. Not for quite a while i.m.h.o. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++