On 11/10/2007, Steve Shockley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > So, there are some web sites that I need to access that use flash. > > Mostly, online product catalogues. Does this mean that I have to use > > Debian on my main box to do this since OpenBSD doesn't? Is that more > > secure? > > At that point, why not just run Windows? The vendor is unlikely to > support you using their Flash catalog under Linux anyway. Or, try to > make Flirt or Gnash work for your catalogs. Or ask the vendor for a > version that's not in Flash, or find a vendor that doesn't try to "hide" > their catalog/pricing in a SWF file. > > The point you've missed is that the developers aren't interested in the > effort to make a binary blob work. I guess someone did want to make > some effort, that's why there's Opera and Opera-Flashplugin for i386, > but It appears Opera doesn't make an amd64 Linux or FreeBSD version. > Shame, if you had the source you could probably just compile the amd64 > version yourself.
I see Gnash is in packages. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnash ) Do Strong Bad emails ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_bad_emails ) run in the newest Gnash? Has anyone tried it? IMHO sbemals are the #1 reason to put up with Flash. (YouTube/Google Video aren't really valid reasons, because if Google had any sense, they'd switch to Theora, ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theora ) or at least make that an option selecable in the Google Video preferences.)
