Randall R Schulz wrote:
On Sunday 25 May 2008 17:03, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Sun, 25 May 2008 15:55:54 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Flash is a file format, and Adobe was recently in the news with their "Open Screen Project" which includes an opening of the flash specifications to the public.
Well, that's a good thing, but realistically there won't be a fully featured (and / or bug-compatible) open-source implementation comparable to Adobe's for a least a few years.
Try looking at the gnash GNU project - it's not a full implementation of the flash spec, but it's not bad. With the opening of the format, they probably will be able to finish the implementation in fairly short time, if it's still actively being developed.
Well, I'm not allergic to commercial software, and I'm not dissatisfied with Flash, given that I have Flashblock.
If the open-source folks can do everything Adobe's software does and more (or better), then I'll take note, otherwise, there's no reason to demand open-source when there's $free$ software that does what one needs (assuming there are no other onerous aspects, of course).
Well, there is Silverlight, which Microsoft is developing to deploy .Net to the web, partially to usurp Flash, which I think it can already do, or at least do the same things (and more). Opensource of Silverlight is Moonlight. Jim F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org