Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Flash at Sugar Labs

2009-01-05 Thread Rob Savoye
Wade Brainerd wrote: > just talking about shipping and supporting a 200 line > Gnash-based-activity launcher script, which can also launch Adobe if > it happens to be installed. Assuming you can talk Adobe into giving you a standalone version of their plugin... - rob -

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Flash at Sugar Labs

2009-01-05 Thread Rob Savoye
Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > I strongly disagree. We should send the clearest possible message that > SWF, a language with no good free spec and no good free interpreter, is Just as a warning, Adobe is probably this year going to push SWF as an official standard, ala OOXML... at least that's

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Flash at Sugar Labs

2009-01-05 Thread Rob Savoye
Bert Freudenberg wrote: > IMHO that activity should be a wrapper for Gnash, perhaps as a native > GTK+ application, without the browser baggage (maybe such a stand-alone > player does exist already?). Since the content is authored specifically As Gnash was created originally as the UI layer for

Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Flash at Sugar Labs

2009-01-05 Thread Rob Savoye
David Van Assche wrote: > Salasaga is a GTK/Gnome based IDE used to create eLearning for > applications. With it, you take screenshots of your applications, > add highlights, text and external images, then generate learning > objects. Present output is in swf (flash) format. I've talked to thei

Re: [Sugar-devel] Flash at Sugar Labs

2009-01-05 Thread Rob Savoye
David Farning wrote: > Fourth, the Standards - > Flash deliverables come in two formats .swf and .flv. Swf and > ActionScript, the development language use to create .swfs have been > open sourced. I believe that the ActionScript source code is jointly > held by Adobe and Mozilla. There are pos