Bug#467324: Gnash in Desktop task?

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 04:42:24PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> Here is a candid assisement of swfdec's suitablility they solicited from
> Benjamin.
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2008-January/msg00084.html

Looking into that link, there seem to be two reasons Benjamin gives that speak
in favour of Gnash:

"Swfdec has not had a lot of exposure yet"

  (Gnash is having huge deployments as part of the OLPC laptop distribution)

"Another issue coupled with the above is that the Swfdec plugin runs in-process
in the browser. [1] This of course means that when Swfdec crashes, your browser
is gone, too."

  (Gnash runs as a standalone process)

I think the "click before run" feature in a way makes stability a hidden
factor.  It'd be trivial to implement the same feature in Gnash, if desired,
but I think the result is that it makes Swfdec look more stable in comparison,
which could be somewhat deceitful.

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Robert Millan

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