Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 04:17:47AM +0100, Ananda Samaddar wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> After one of my usual bored web browsing sessions I came across these
> items:
>
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/
> http://applications.linux.com/comments.pl?sid=38263&cid=97469
>
> Adobe have opened the source code to their Action Script virtual
> machine (the Tamarin project) and the main developer of swfdec states
> in the second link (if it's him) that Flash 8 Video support would be
> easy to add to swfdec. What does everyone else think of this? I
> personally find it shocking that a proprietary software product has
> become a de facto web standard. Surely a FLOSS Flash player would go
> some way to remedying such a reliance on a proprietary product? Am I
> clutching at straws? We already have Gnash and swfdec but they are as
> of yet not fully Flash 9 compatible. Will the Tamarin project be of
> any use to them?
>
> regards,
>
> Ananda Samaddar
>
>
This is one of those subjects that becomes a question of standards;
Whether to adhere to the standards or use only DFSG-free software.
Personally I use only DFSG-free software, and I really don't find Gnash
usable (Of course, if it was what would be the point of this topic?)
There definitely needs to be a FLOSS alternative to Adobe's flash
player, but I have to say browsing the internet without flash is
actually much nicer than having flash.
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