Hi, On 06/01/2008, Dave Crossland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06/01/2008, Jon Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It is even worse if we consider the FSF's Gnash (GPLFlash) shoring up > > the propreitary Adobe Flash format. I asked FSF about this, and they > > basically said it was too established a "de facto" standard to > > ignore/boycott now. I personally dont agree, > > Please explain why. Flash is a "de facto" standard in my experience: > My 16 year old sister refused to use gNewSense solely because Gnash is > still in early development, and went back to Windows.
The FSF plan is to solely support Flash, that is a flawed plan IMHO, just like solely supporting MS-Word file format would be. Instead they should develop a multimedia standard for audio/video/vector graphics and scripting which is better, and include backwards compatible support for Flash files as an option to assist in the migration to an open standard. > > and would have rather > > seen FSF invest in theora-vorbis support in Firefox or HTML5 standard > > etc. > > Those efforts would be worthwhile and I hope the FSF and FSFe are > involved in them, but they do not conflict with Gnash development. Multimedia support in browsers really is where effort should be focused, not on a pure legacy Flash playback implementation. This all seems obvious to me, so perhaps I have missed something? Cheers, Jon _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
