Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 20:53:04 +0200 From: Charlie Clark <charlie@begeistert.org> To: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Newbies <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Web Browsers. Message-ID: <20030402205304.11296.2@wonderland.1049306324.fake> In-Reply-To: <200304021037.13970.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> References: <20030402154658.11242.qmail@web20302.mail.yahoo.com> <20030402105412.2cd06164.asenchi@asenchi.com> <1049299977.340.25.camel@Toto.dippgw.homedns.org> <200304021037.13970.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com>
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On 2003-04-02 at 20:37:13 [+0200], Johnson David wrote: > Flash is pretty much broken all around on FreeBSD. The reason is that the > Macromedia flash plugin is only for Linux. Therefore you can't run a > native FreeBSD browser and get decent flash, you need to run a Linux port > of a browser using the Linux plugin. so the Linux plug-in will run on BSD if Linux compatability is enabled? How dependent is this on XFree86 and any window manager on top of this: I guess the runtime is quite easy to encapsulate and the rest should be calls to XFree86 / KDE, aren't they? > This is NOT the fault of FreeBSD, it is the fault of Macromedia, who > continues to promote proprietary software as a web standard. Shame on > them! Hold your horses: Flash was developed at a time when there was no alternative for that kind of content (AWT / Swing was and still is IMHO a joke and also just as proprietary) and Flash has its uses just like PDF from Adobe does. While it would be nice for Macromedia to maintain a BSD-Flash player I can understand why they don't. On BeOS a third party, the General Coffee Company developed and released their own player so this should be possible on BSD. Of course, Macromedia's recent attempt to relaunch a complete Flash -ased website backfired and that's the best thing that could happen to them: they've gone back to mixing Flash with HTML. Charlie
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