On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 02:41:35PM +0100, Jon Grant wrote: > 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. I was discussing this on IRC last night. I seem to remember reading about the possibility of bundling JavaScript and SVG etc. to create an open, Flash-equivalent platform for animation and media. Did anything practical ever arise from this? Dave -- Dave Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
