Firefox+Flash

[Jerry McAllister]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 05:52:45PM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote:

> 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.

OK.   I see it.  But since I am running Firefox, it doesn't do much.
Are you proposing to add SVG to Firefox or create a 'plugin' for
Firefox?

////jerry

> 
> --jona