On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Mithgol the Webmaster wrote: > > Can't say about Flash (I just don't use it ;) but news support may be must > instead. > > I won't even try to code any of it ;-) > > Let's hope Michael will go crazy enough to make at least an attempt.
1) Java is becoming relatively obsolete, it isn't even included in Windows XP by default, and I never really like java (probably because early Java applets in Netscape 3.x were very unimpressive: slow and crashing entire system very often..) 2) Flash client can be licensed, and it is relatively portable; Suntech/Nexwave licensed Flash and ported it into their kernel-less OS. They maybe even use it together with their licensed clone of Arachne. As there is server-side dynamic generation of SWF files possible (PHP module; installed on arachne.cz), Flash seems to be realy only alternative for vector-based graphics which is available today. Unfortunately, it's binary only, ignores W3C recommendations, and client is not open source. Linux plug-ins can be forced to run inside non-netscape browsers (like Konqueror), but it is probably restricted to X11 enviroment, while I want Linux Arachne to be X-friendly as well as X-independent.. 3) Let's talk about open source Arachne instead.... and how to force OEM customers to subsidize Arachne development anyway... ;-) -- http://arachne.cz/ (Arachne WWW browser for DOS+Linux / Webhosting / MP3streaming)
