Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:58:59 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to enable linux flash player [9] in firefox Message-ID: <20070128035858.GA38349@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <45BBC3D5.9060504@u.washington.edu> References: <20070126073329.BC30B16A40F@hub.freebsd.org> <200701271128.21056.odilist@sonic.net> <45BBC3D5.9060504@u.washington.edu>
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On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:27:49PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > It's a pain in the ass that Adobe / Macromedia had to invent a > technology that so many "web developers" sought, just because of its > ease of "developing"; if only the "developers" sought to learn CSS and a > bit of proper javascripting, then stuff would be easier for viewing on > all platforms. > I've nevr understood the need for something as absurd as flash and shockwave; a graphic/animated app that was developed for proprietary computers. But I have wanted to know if the same thing could be done with Java. Isn't most of the sweat in creating the animation? The big question is, how much effort would it take to creat a javascript out of whatever-flash-requires? -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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