Stop Adobe Flash Petition

[Conrad J. Sabatier]

On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:50:38 +0000
nawcom <nawcom at nawcom.com> wrote:

> I checked out the flash at the University of Utah site, and I must say 
> it is impressive for gnash. Looks like that swf was made with Flash 7, 
> or at least that's its minimum requirement. Unfortunately, gnash has a 
> while to go, as it will never be in a satisfactory state until - it 
> loads YouTube videos. Yes, ridiculous, but true, since I'm sure that is 
> one of the many flash sites that people want to load. :(
> -Ben

I've watched YouTube videos with Gnash, even with version 0.8.3.  Not
*all* of them worked, mind you, but quite a substantial number.

Here's one of my favorites (a real hoot, actually; a "translation", with
accompanying "visual aids", of what Joe Cocker was actually singing at
Woodstock) :-) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4_MsrsKzMM

> Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> > On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:39:55 +0200
> > Martin Tournoij <carpetsmoker at rwxrwxrwx.net> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> Sign it here:
> >>
> >> http://www.petitiononline.com/0034655a/petition.html
> >>     
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > Well, personally, I'd rather light a candle than curse the darkness,
> > so...
> >
> > Today, I fetched the repo sources for the "HEAD" version of gnash,
> > built and installed it, and I must say, it's working far better than
> > the latest release version (0.8.3).  Sites that wouldn't work properly
> > before are now displaying beautifully.  Here's a good example of a
> > site that would break before, but works now:
> >
> > http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/units/addiction/drugs/mouse.cfm
> >
> > See http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/#downloading for info on how to
> > obtain the sources.  You'll need to install devel/bazaar-ng (yes, yet
> > another version control system!) to fetch the code.
> >
> > To configure, I ran "gnash -V" using the existing (0.8.3) version and
> > copied the configuration switches from the resulting output.  Then ran
> > gmake to build and install (after pkg_deleting the old version, of
> > course).
> >
> > I'm pleased with the results.  Still not 100% perfect, but a whole
> > heck of a lot better.
> >
> >   
> 
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