Firefox+Flash

[Jona Joachim]

Jerry McAllister wrote:
> 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?

SVG 1.1 Tiny became a W3C recommendation on 14th January 2003 so I
believe they will implement it sonner or later

--jona