Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?

2007-04-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I see your point, the reason I am shocked is that Flash is not a web > standard as such verified by the Web Consortium but has become a de facto > standard as people rush to put stupid animations and graphics on their > websites. I agree with the Captalism comment to. The reason I use Debian >

Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?

2007-04-13 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ananda Samaddar wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:20:15 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> animations and graphics on their websites. I agree with the >> It's still naive in the extreme to be shocked that proprietary >> formats can

Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?

2007-04-13 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:20:15 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > animations and graphics on their websites. I agree with the > > It's still naive in the extreme to be shocked that proprietary > formats can become dominant. > > - -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > I agree, it's outrage rea

Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?

2007-04-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/13/07 07:59, Ananda Samaddar wrote: [snip] > I see your point, the reason I am shocked is that Flash is not a > web standard as such verified by the Web Consortium but has > become a de facto standard as people rush to put stupid > animations and

Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?

2007-04-13 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:49:01 +0200 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 04/09/07 22:17, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > > [snip] > >> think of this? I personally find it shocking that a proprietary > >> software product has

Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?

2007-04-12 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/09/07 22:17, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > [snip] >> think of this? I personally find it shocking that a proprietary >> software product has become a de facto web standard. Surely a > > Shocked? Really? What planet are you fr

Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?

2007-04-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/09/07 22:17, Ananda Samaddar wrote: [snip] > think of this? I personally find it shocking that a proprietary > software product has become a de facto web standard. Surely a Shocked? Really? What planet are you from? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Je

Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?

2007-04-11 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 19:06:54 +0300 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Oh, and swfdec0.4 in all it's YouTubey glory is in unstable now. > > Thanks! 'aptitude purge flashplugin-nonfree' and one more non-free > piece is gone. > > Regards, >

Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?

2007-04-10 Thread Andrei Popescu
Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh, and swfdec0.4 in all it's YouTubey glory is in unstable now. Thanks! 'aptitude purge flashplugin-nonfree' and one more non-free piece is gone. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein

Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?

2007-04-10 Thread Matthew K Poer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sven Arvidsson wrote: > Oh, and swfdec0.4 in all it's YouTubey glory is in unstable now. > I've been wanting that! Thanks for the note on it. I was going to use the tarball from the site. I <3 APT system - -- Please do not use HTML mail for fully-t

Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?

2007-04-10 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 04:17 +0100, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > After one of my usual bored web browsing sessions I came across these items: > > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/ > http://applications.linux.com/comments.pl?sid=38263&cid=97469 > > Adobe have opened the source code to their Acti

Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?

2007-04-09 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:30:02 -0400 Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 04:17:47AM +0100, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > > > After one of my usual bored web browsing sessions I came across these >

Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?

2007-04-09 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 04:17:47AM +0100, Ananda Samaddar wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > After one of my usual bored web browsing sessions I came across these > items: > > http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/ > http://applications.linux.com/comments.p

Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?

2007-04-09 Thread Ananda Samaddar
Hi Everyone, After one of my usual bored web browsing sessions I came across these items: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tamarin/ http://applications.linux.com/comments.pl?sid=38263&cid=97469 Adobe have opened the source code to their Action Script virtual machine (the Tamarin project) and the