From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 28 03:59:02 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E00416A403 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 03:59:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCD5913C49D for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2007 03:59:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l0S3wxhX038428; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:59:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l0S3wxUZ038427; Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:58:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:58:59 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Garrett Cooper Message-ID: <20070128035858.GA38349@thought.org> References: <20070126073329.BC30B16A40F@hub.freebsd.org> <200701271128.21056.odilist@sonic.net> <45BBC3D5.9060504@u.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45BBC3D5.9060504@u.washington.edu> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to enable linux flash player [9] in firefox 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, 28 Jan 2007 03:59:02 -0000 On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:27:49PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > > It's a pain in the ass that Adobe / Macromedia had to invent a > technology that so many "web developers" sought, just because of its > ease of "developing"; if only the "developers" sought to learn CSS and a > bit of proper javascripting, then stuff would be easier for viewing on > all platforms. > I've nevr understood the need for something as absurd as flash and shockwave; a graphic/animated app that was developed for proprietary computers. But I have wanted to know if the same thing could be done with Java. Isn't most of the sweat in creating the animation? The big question is, how much effort would it take to creat a javascript out of whatever-flash-requires? -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix