Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:17:20 +0100 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <almarrie@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: MS, Adobe competition heats up, Will Adobe wake and port Flash to BSD? Message-ID: <1176988640.1208.5.camel@zoot.mintel.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <499c70c0704182059y41dbeb3aobf520522e94ee750@mail.gmail.com> References: <499c70c0704162200s15b0bf28oa939100c19c34b44@mail.gmail.com> <d7195cff0704181030m54b231ceodf47429594d4a3f@mail.gmail.com> <499c70c0704182059y41dbeb3aobf520522e94ee750@mail.gmail.com>
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--=-rfZxhob8Nh5QAhfyLrtA Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 06:59 +0300, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > On 4/18/07, illoai@gmail.com <illoai@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 17/04/07, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <almarrie@gmail.com> wrote: > > . . . > > > Porting Flash to more OSes will sure will make adobe beats MS when it > > > comes to web media. > > > > I hope they kill each other and take the whole > > retch-media enhanced web experience with > > them flaming into the pit of hell from which > > they came. > > > > But that's just my opinion. > > > > References: > > http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=3Dboiling_blood >=20 > I'm sorry but rich media is a fact in the web, and you can't ignore it. >=20 > Flash is used with Yahoo! maps, and so with alot of useful apps like > stocks prices ..etc. Google Maps works just fine without flash - why would you want to constrain your viewport to some poxy applet control? If I want to watch a video, I want to use mplayer, not Firefox, >=20 > Instead of ignoring it, we should see it ported to FreeBSD. I write web applications for a living, and quite happily ignore the steaming pile of excrement that is rich media applets - the number of 3rd party browser addons whose sole purpose is to disable flash reassures me that I'm not alone in this view --=-rfZxhob8Nh5QAhfyLrtA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGJ2vXlcRvFfyds/cRAu0bAJ9FTR5w9PaVUeMFTz9PK5Co6/ufcQCfUJvM QBrLtGosoEEp6nOx2uxBuYc= =MqWk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-rfZxhob8Nh5QAhfyLrtA--
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