On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 02:37:48PM -0700, John Kozubik wrote: > FreeBSD is not useful as a desktop environment without the ability to > support Flash in a stable, well-performing fashion.
Nonsense. This presumes anything "useful" has ever been written in flash. > Free flash alternatives and flash movie players, etc., are, unfortunately, > not a solution. While they certainly don't support everything perfectly, swfdec works fairly well for a large number of sites - notably YouTube and similar FLV wrappers, which is what most people ultimately use Flash for. Even if someone got Flash 9 working, we'll just be playing catch-up when Flash 10 is released and everything starts requiring it. While I honestly wish you the best of luck, I do think that developer effort is much better spent improving free implementations of Flash, as the spec is fairly open. If there are some particular things that don't work well for you with swfdec/gnash, why not offer a bounty to have those fixed? This would be more helpful to more people, like those not running FreeBSD, and those of us who don't use Linux binary compat - of which I suspect there are more than you assume. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
