Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:06:07 +0100 (CET) From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?=C1d=E1m_Szilveszter?= <sziszi@c2.hu> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Petition! Ask Macromedia for a native Flash Player! Message-ID: <2249.193.68.33.1.1142852767.squirrel@mail.c2.hu> In-Reply-To: <20060320081250.GA1310@flame.pc> References: <e6575a30603180752mb88eae5ha78e7073622016b7@mail.gmail.com><200603191206.37710.krinklyfig@speakeasy.net> <20060320081250.GA1310@flame.pc>
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Giorgos Keramidas said: > Having said that, I hate Flash, because it makes pages very unusable > for > me most of the time. Some of the pains involve the inability to use a > text-based browser for quicky accesses, the inability to select a font > size that matches my preference, the inability to copy text from and > to > flash elements, etc. etc. > > I still filled the form, because some times it's impossible to access > a > page AT ALL if Flash is not available. In addition to the above, I think it would still be of greater benefit to the open source world as a whole if alternative flash player software were created by the community. A similar example is PDF: It would be really bad if all we had today for dealing with PDF were the Adobe reader... but that meant that someone had to sit down and reimplement the standard even though AR for Linux existed at that time already, for example. I know that there used to be alternative open-source flash plugins at one time (supporting version 4.x of flash) but for some reason, not much interest seems to exist to create others. (I know about the in-development GNU project but it is very early development at this time.) Anyone know of anything else? I would love to find an existing alternative. For some reason, begging for closed-source native FreeBSD versions of utilities does not feel right, neither for the user, nor for the manufacturer (just think about it, how many separate versions they would have to maintain just to support all FreeBSD versions in widespread use today? Something like 3-4, unless I am mistaken...) which will likely mean that some versions simply will not be supported at all instead. Just my opinion... Regards Sz. ------------------------------------- Tele van a postaládája? C2MAIL 100 MB e-mail tárhely ingyen! http://mail.c2.hu
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