Hi Alex Hudson wrote: > On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 15:50 +0100, MJ Ray wrote: >> Others know Free Flash better than I do. Last I saw was >> http://web.archive.org/web/20050205034327/http://www.affs.org.uk/~alex/HowDoWeReplaceFlash >> which seems to have been removed from www.affs.org.uk since. >> Anyone know where that info lives now? > > It got taken down because of spam abuse; we do still have it, but it > does really need to be updated. > > Gnash is on my list of things to try out, but I'd love to hear from > anyone who's tried it. > > Flash is relatively non-DRM'd; to be honest, it's just not that great a > media delivery system anyway. Vector animation it does outstandingly > well, video and audio are definitely poor cousins. > > Like MJ, I have no particular love of Adobe, and it's a shame that they > continue to peddle the 'must be 100% compatible' meme when asked about a > free software player. It's mostly within their purview (granted maybe > not mp3, etc.) and Sun have seemed to have given up the same excuse for > free Java.
It's a shame the US's FSF are promoting the "Flash" format via their plugin development as a long term solution. (Seems to contradict their positive anti-MS-Word stance?? I don't see them advocating us all use AbiWord for its great support for MS-Word) In my view we should focus on replacing their binary file-format which is handled by a proprietary browser plugin with open technologies browsers can support natively. Then we can select text and bookmark things which are presently hidden in "Flash" files. Cheers Jon _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
