> Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 11:33:49 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Richard <r_j_humphr...@yahoo.co.uk>
> To: BLFS Support List <blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org>
> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] WebKitGTK-1/Flash
>
> Firstly, I am grateful for the replies.
>
> Regrettably, so far I have made no progress.
>
> Some comments below...
>
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>
> I apologise if my initial post lacked detail. Perhaps I should be more
> precise:
>
> I intend eventually to use the 'uzbl' browser, which supposedly supports
> flash. For testing purposes I have built uzbl (actually three sub-packages
> of which two are relevant) and I am also using the pre-supplied tool
> 'GtkLauncher' which I found in the 'Programs' directory after the webkit
> build.
>
> My understanding is that a suitable browser should be able to use externally
> supplied 'plugins' in order to render specialist material such as swf, java
> etc. To this end I have tried GtkLauncher, uzbl-browser and uzbl-core all
> rendering the page 'http://www.adobe.com/flash' and all three tell me that
> 'this
> content requires flash' and provide a helpful download link encouraging me to
> obtain the library which I already have in several places on the system...
>
> ---
>
> I do note that in the configure log, webkit has the 'external plugin process'
> disabled - however this appears to be a feature of 'webkit-2' (which I have
> inferred uses GTK3?). So I am assuming that webkit-1 does not use the external
> process and handles plugins differently? (I did try rebuilding with
> --enable-plugin-process but predictably it complained about a lack of GTK 3).
>
> So, does anybody have any other good ideas? Have I misunderstood some vital
> concept?
>
Have you seen & processed these posts (search in their text for 'flash' to get
the right places):
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* http://lists.uzbl.org/pipermail/uzbl-dev/2013-October/thread.html
* http://lists.uzbl.org/pipermail/uzbl-dev/2013-November/thread.html
* http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/281263
* ( http://lists.uzbl.org/pipermail/uzbl-dev/ )
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rgds,
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