Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:47:42 -0400 From: DAve <dave.list@pixelhammer.com> To: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: MS, Adobe competition heats up, Will Adobe wake and port Flash to BSD? Message-ID: <462772FE.5080205@pixelhammer.com> In-Reply-To: <1176988640.1208.5.camel@zoot.mintel.co.uk> References: <499c70c0704162200s15b0bf28oa939100c19c34b44@mail.gmail.com> <d7195cff0704181030m54b231ceodf47429594d4a3f@mail.gmail.com> <499c70c0704182059y41dbeb3aobf520522e94ee750@mail.gmail.com> <1176988640.1208.5.camel@zoot.mintel.co.uk>
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Tom Evans wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 06:59 +0300, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: >> On 4/18/07, illoai@gmail.com <illoai@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 17/04/07, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <almarrie@gmail.com> wrote: >>> . . . >>>> Porting Flash to more OSes will sure will make adobe beats MS when it >>>> comes to web media. >>> I hope they kill each other and take the whole >>> retch-media enhanced web experience with >>> them flaming into the pit of hell from which >>> they came. >>> >>> But that's just my opinion. >>> >>> References: >>> http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=boiling_blood >> I'm sorry but rich media is a fact in the web, and you can't ignore it. >> >> Flash is used with Yahoo! maps, and so with alot of useful apps like >> stocks prices ..etc. > > Google Maps works just fine without flash - why would you want to > constrain your viewport to some poxy applet control? > If I want to watch a video, I want to use mplayer, not Firefox, > >> Instead of ignoring it, we should see it ported to FreeBSD. > > I write web applications for a living, and quite happily ignore the > steaming pile of excrement that is rich media applets - the number of > 3rd party browser addons whose sole purpose is to disable flash > reassures me that I'm not alone in this view > What FreeBSD needs is a program to display a map just like Google, MapQuest, Yahoo, etc. Except, here is the kicker, make the map "correct". I used an online map for the first time in two years last week, it was wrong. I stopped and picked up a new RM Atlas on my way home. I am afraid I must agree with Mr. Evans, rich media is a comedy. Back in 1998 everyone was screaming "it's the content dummy!". That is still true today, and still gleefully ignored by most. Just so long as it is pretty, uses [web|i|e]-<insert new buzz here>, or wins a Weby, the content is meaningless, and no one seems to care. Sorry, I'll go sit in the corner again. DAve -- Three years now I've asked Google why they don't have a logo change for Memorial Day. Why do they choose to do logos for other non-international holidays, but nothing for Veterans? Maybe they forgot who made that choice possible.
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