Re: Flash is open?
> I always perceived a lack of interest. Few people really want to work
> on it, it seems. I root for Gnash, but I go ahead and use Adobe's
> non-free player.
As long as you use adobe's player, you're not really rooting for Gnash.
> The former is becoming mooted by the advent of HTML5. The latter is
> boring, since there are 1000s of other ways to write programs that run
> in web browsers, e.g., Javascript.
Actually, I'd be interested to know what are those other 999.
AFAIK Javascript and Flash are the only games in town. And in some
areas (e.g. modern furniture companies come to mind), Flash-based
websites is the norm. So Flash is important.
But in either case, for users who care about their Freedom, both Flash
and Javascript are real threats, because even if you use a Free Software
implementation of the language, the code run in each web-page will
usually be 100% proprietary.
Stefan
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