From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 20 11:06:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 178B516A401 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:06:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sziszi@c2.hu) Received: from c2.hu (mail.c2.hu [193.202.88.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93B3943D5F for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:06:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sziszi@c2.hu) Envelope-to: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from localhost [127.0.0.1]:58659 (helo=mail.c2.hu) by c2.hu with smtp id 1FLID9-000AZi-U1 for freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:06:08 +0100 Received: from 193.68.33.1 (SquirrelMail authenticated user sziszi@c2.hu) by mail.c2.hu with HTTP; Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:06:07 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <2249.193.68.33.1.1142852767.squirrel@mail.c2.hu> In-Reply-To: <20060320081250.GA1310@flame.pc> References: <200603191206.37710.krinklyfig@speakeasy.net> <20060320081250.GA1310@flame.pc> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:06:07 +0100 (CET) From: =?iso-8859-2?Q?=C1d=E1m_Szilveszter?= To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org User-Agent: C2Mail / 2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Note: Sending IP is 127.0.0.1 (localhost) Subject: Re: Petition! Ask Macromedia for a native Flash Player! X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:06:14 -0000 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