From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 4 04:01:28 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6AA21065672 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 04:01:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nawcom@nawcom.com) Received: from flpi101.prodigy.net (flpi101.sbcis.sbc.com [207.115.20.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1BA28FC0C for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2008 04:01:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nawcom@nawcom.com) Received: from nawcoms-macbook.local (adsl-68-252-71-82.dsl.sfldmi.ameritech.net [68.252.71.82]) (authenticated bits=0) by flpi101.prodigy.net (8.13.8 smtpauth/dk/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m743pBl1017433 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2008 20:51:11 -0700 Message-ID: <4896444E.3000002@nawcom.com> Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:50:38 +0000 From: nawcom User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <20080626103955.GA28128@rwxrwxrwx.net> <20080803210711.6a0612a8@serene.no-ip.org> In-Reply-To: <20080803210711.6a0612a8@serene.no-ip.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Stop Adobe Flash Petition X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:01:28 -0000 I checked out the flash at the University of Utah site, and I must say it is impressive for gnash. Looks like that swf was made with Flash 7, or at least that's its minimum requirement. Unfortunately, gnash has a while to go, as it will never be in a satisfactory state until - it loads YouTube videos. Yes, ridiculous, but true, since I'm sure that is one of the many flash sites that people want to load. :( -Ben Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:39:55 +0200 > Martin Tournoij wrote: > > >> Sign it here: >> >> http://www.petitiononline.com/0034655a/petition.html >> > > [snip] > > Well, personally, I'd rather light a candle than curse the darkness, so... > > Today, I fetched the repo sources for the "HEAD" version of gnash, built > and installed it, and I must say, it's working far better than the > latest release version (0.8.3). Sites that wouldn't work properly > before are now displaying beautifully. Here's a good example of a site > that would break before, but works now: > > http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/units/addiction/drugs/mouse.cfm > > See http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/#downloading for info on how to > obtain the sources. You'll need to install devel/bazaar-ng (yes, yet > another version control system!) to fetch the code. > > To configure, I ran "gnash -V" using the existing (0.8.3) version and > copied the configuration switches from the resulting output. Then ran > gmake to build and install (after pkg_deleting the old version, of > course). > > I'm pleased with the results. Still not 100% perfect, but a whole heck > of a lot better. > >