Firefox+Flash

[Jona Joachim]

Jerry McAllister wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 02:46:19AM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote:
> 
>> Chuck Swiger wrote:
>>> On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote:
>>>> Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer.  It is best *not* to show your
>>>> friends that when you introduce them to FBSD.
>>> Why?  Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads?
>>>
>>> I can't think of a single site that I use that needs Flash; I don't
>>> install it even on a Windows or MacOS X box.
>> I don't have the need for Flash either. Youtube and Google Video should
>> provide their videos in a proper way.
>> I still believe in dynamic SVG for clear animations. You can watch one
>> of those on the Opera site about SVG, it's great.
>> Nobody needs proprietary binary formats on the Internet.
> 
> Nice thought, but the real world is full of flash, much as it annoys me.
> 
> By the way, I didn't find an SVG animation on the Opera page though
> it mentioned SVG and hyped it a little.

It's there: http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/svg/
Your browser has to support SVG 1.1 Tiny to view it. I know that Firefox
(even 2.0) and Konqueror don't support it yet. Opera supports it from
version 8 on.

--jona