[svlug] Flash-driven websites

[James Sparenberg]

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 11:11, Romain Kang wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 10:50:48AM -0800, Fabrizio Bertocci wrote:
> > The problem is not really flash or no flash... the problem here is
> > Window$/Internet Explorer or everything else...
> 
> Agreed.  As open standard / open source folks, one of our cardinal
> concerns should be portability.  There are times when innovation
> is compelling and worth a bit of migration pain, but the truly
> compelling changes are ones that everyone follows and portability
> problems fade away.  Flash navigation is just one example where
> there's no true gain but lots of inconvenience from loss of
> portability.
> 
> Someone pointed out that Macromedia has a Linux Flash player/plugin
> available, but it's only for x86 boxes.  This does no good on my
> Linux PPC iBook nor my FreeBSD desktop at work (well, unless I spend
> some time wrangling with Linux compat mode).  But I'll bet Macromedia's
> offering isn't fully portable even in the Linux x86 realm.

Actually I just checked the site in question with flash7 for linux from
Macromedia (Firefox 1.0.1) and it works fine.  Funny thing is that they
have Tux and Charlie (FreeBSD) on the front page prominently.  BTW IE 6
under wine kept crashing on the page. (I use it for compat testing,
reluctantly)

James
> 
> So what do we do to reach those bone-headed web designers?  Anyone
> up to finding their favorite online forums and blogging them to
> their senses?
> 
> Romain
> 
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