On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:53:58 -0400 Gilbert Sullivan <whirlygig@comcast.net> wrote: > Ah! That makes more sense. I was kind of feeling dirty for a little > bit there, wondering just who the GNU/Linux developers might be > crawling into bed with! Chromium is all BSD, its google chrome that is a bit dirty ;) > ;-) > > I wouldn't mind seeing flash go away -- perhaps to be replaced by > HTML5 (and moonlight?). Flash has been mostly a pain to me for years > -- especially when my wife was still using Windows. I'm delighted to > have an Open Source solution for playing flash -- even if it doesn't > exactly work perfectly. At least with Debian package management I > don't have to worry about traces of old, insecure versions of the > player hanging on in the system even after I've supposedly "updated" > it. Flash might be one of the "evils" of the web, but it better than moonlight as most silverlight stuff wont work in moonlight 2.2 where as flash v10.1 works with pretty much everything (ignoring the total lack of a good 64bit plug-in and the instability of nsplugins!), just about. But its a bit like choosing between being death by falling or crushing, either way, you end up dead! > Thanks for correcting my misapprehension about the future of flash > implementation in chromium-browser. Your welcome! > Regards, > Gilbert ------ Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97
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