From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 8 13:14:59 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF99A1065677 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 13:14:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from nagual.nl (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.10.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5739C8FC16 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 13:14:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dick@nagual.nl) Received: from nagual.nl (midgard.nagual.nl [192.168.11.32]) by nagual.nl (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/yanta) with ESMTP id m58DFRwu018248 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 15:15:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 192.168.11.31 (SquirrelMail authenticated user dick) by nagual.nl with HTTP; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 15:15:27 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <39310.192.168.11.31.1212930927.squirrel@nagual.nl> Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 15:15:27 +0200 (CEST) From: "dick hoogendijk" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.13 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 192.168.11.35 Subject: Re: Flashplugin X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 13:14:59 -0000 On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 22:16:34 -0400 Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 12:03:50AM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > > On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 15:33:26 -0500 > > "Sam Fourman Jr." wrote: > > > > > use Firefox for Windows and use wine, then install the windows Flash 9 plugin > > > > People choosing FreeBSD shouldn't be "forced" to run windowish solution. The OS is not supported. That's a major problem in these modern times, although lots of fbsd people tend to say it is not. That's not everyday's live however. FreeBSD does not make the web. > > OK. So get busy anc contribute a flash9 plugin that works in > FreeBSD. See if you can get the necessary information out of Adobe. As Tobias Hoelrich stated: That's simply wrong. The Flash format byte-code is *not* proprietary. If you want to, you can go ahead and create your own Flash Player. The specifications for the format are freely available at: http://www.adobe.com/openscreenproject/developers/ So, the infromation -is- there. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS 10u5 05/08 ++