Stop Adobe Flash Petition

[nawcom]

I checked out the flash at the University of Utah site, and I must say 
it is impressive for gnash. Looks like that swf was made with Flash 7, 
or at least that's its minimum requirement. Unfortunately, gnash has a 
while to go, as it will never be in a satisfactory state until - it 
loads YouTube videos. Yes, ridiculous, but true, since I'm sure that is 
one of the many flash sites that people want to load. :(
-Ben

Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:39:55 +0200
> Martin Tournoij <carpetsmoker at rwxrwxrwx.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> Sign it here:
>>
>> http://www.petitiononline.com/0034655a/petition.html
>>     
>
> [snip]
>
> Well, personally, I'd rather light a candle than curse the darkness, so...
>
> Today, I fetched the repo sources for the "HEAD" version of gnash, built
> and installed it, and I must say, it's working far better than the
> latest release version (0.8.3).  Sites that wouldn't work properly
> before are now displaying beautifully.  Here's a good example of a site
> that would break before, but works now:
>
> http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/units/addiction/drugs/mouse.cfm
>
> See http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/#downloading for info on how to
> obtain the sources.  You'll need to install devel/bazaar-ng (yes, yet
> another version control system!) to fetch the code.
>
> To configure, I ran "gnash -V" using the existing (0.8.3) version and
> copied the configuration switches from the resulting output.  Then ran
> gmake to build and install (after pkg_deleting the old version, of
> course).
>
> I'm pleased with the results.  Still not 100% perfect, but a whole heck
> of a lot better.
>
>