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[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Mark Kane wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2006, at 16:25:21 -0300, Charles A. Landemaine wrote:
>> On 8/20/06, Don Witt <witt at cylogistics.com> wrote:
>>> The next release of Adobe flash developer will have a revised
>>> license which will include FreeBSD. This was per the product
>>> manager.
>> License is not the most important. What is important for the end user
>> is having a native version of his own operating system :)
> 
> I read this last month:
> 
> http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2006/07/api_review.html
> 
> The using ALSA for sound in version 9 doesn't sound very good for
> getting it to work on FreeBSD even if/when the license allows it. I
> don't understand why it's so hard for them to make it compatible with
> more OSes. They are in the business of selling software to create
> content in their proprietary Flash format, but if that can't be viewed
> on every common OS, then I think/know developers will not develop
> exclusively in Flash as much. 

If only we could be so lucky.

Personally, I think flash sites *SUCK* and would rather people didn't
use it, especially if usage of the site depends on it.

It's usually ugly, it means yet more junk hiding the information I want,
and it puts a heavy load on my client machine.

Save for about 99% of JavaScript that I see.  It's usually doing
something stupid, it adds useless stuff, and often puts a heavy load on
my client machine.