Re: Mozilla plugins
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:36:02PM -0400, christophe barbe wrote:
> Just want to point the obvious: They have a powerpc plugin that works
> perfectly under MacOS-X. So basically that's nearly a zero-effort for them
> to provide the community a linux/powerpc binary.
Actually, it's even worse than that.
I'm doubting there is much hardware specific crap in it, and they
support Linux-x86, so it IS a near-zero-effort (hell, all they'd
have to do is ask, and I'm sure someone would be willing to compile
it for them).
> Proprietary sucks, let's wait the free plugin.
The problem is that this is proprietary code written to display a
proprietary and "marketing" driven product. There are incompatible
changes from 4 to 5 to 6.
That makes it hard to track.
Push them to support it. Once they commit to doing it, it's easy.
> Christophe
>
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 11:58:46AM -0700, Petro wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 08:20:05PM +0200, CK wrote:
> > > I read:
> > > > The web site is i386 only. I didn't check, but most probably the
> > > > flashplugin package is also i386 only, that is why you are not finding
> > > > him.
> > > the official flash plugin for linux is definitely i386 only, at least on
> > > macromedias website, and I'd guess that's what's in the debs.
> > > > I think there are other solutions available though.
> > > like what ?
> > > regards,
> >
> > I'd suggest harassing Macromedia about it. They promulgated this
> > "standard", they need to be heckled, harassed, bothered and berated
> > into supporting it properly.
> >
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