Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. alternatives?

[Marcin Cieslak]

eculp wrote:
> Quoting John Kozubik <john at kozubik.com>:

> Thanks, for reminding me but I will put another 100 dollars for the same 
> but I need it to work on FreeBSD 7 and 8, amd64 and i386 although if 
> justifiable I could get by without amd64 but would rather not. (My 

A secret binary under NDA will not make users on all architectures happy 
(yes, you can compile once, but maintain the port...?).

I hope that alternatives (silverlight / moonlight) and gnash will make 
matters better. Recent gnash snapshots are getting much more usable 
(0.8.2rc played Youtube movies just fine).

Gnash has also some nice features - whitelist/blacklist and debugging so 
that you can see what URL's is your SWF really accessing. (I have 
blacklisted some YT statistics immediately). Another feature I like is 
that movies do not have to autostart - you can play them when you click 
them. This saves a lot of trouble with hanging/crashing SWF's. Plus, 
gnash runs as a separate standalone process, so a crash is not that bad.

--Marcin

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