From: Rich <rich@...>
Date: 2003-02-07T06:46:45+09:00
Subject: Re: locana, SVG, cross-platform GUI meanderings...

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Eric Hodel" <drbrain@segment7.net>
>To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
>Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 2:37 PM
>Subject: Re: locana, SVG, cross-platform GUI meanderings...
>
>> Besides the fact it's not open, is there any other
>> reason Linux people hate Flash? My friend hates it,
>> but he hates *LOTS* of things. :)
>
>My dislike of flash is that it doesn't build on FreeBSD, unless I use
>the Linux ABI, which means I have to download and install a bunch of
>Linux libraries (which really is trivial, portupgrade -N linux_base),
>but then I have to use a Linux browser, which means I can't modify said
>browser (namely phoenix) because I'd need a linux box to compile it.
>
>Also, I've only seen one useable flash site, the rest just annoy me with
>eye-candy, and block navigation (which is _especially_ annoying when
>using w3m, as I often do).
>

Ok. FreeBSD was hard.

What about: http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/alternates/#linux

 "These Linux packages (RPM, DEB, ebuild) are available for manual download,
apt-get, urpmi, or emerge for these supported operating systems: RedHat,
Mandrake, SuSE, Conectiva, Debian, Gentoo, Generic."

If your target audience is 100% FreeBSD - then I agree. Don't use Flash.

Useable Flash?? That's our job. The fact that you can make a bad product
with a tool does not mean the tool is bad.

Macromedia has been very active in promoting useable Flash. They hate the
eye-candy too...

-Rich