Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. alternatives?

[eculp]

Quoting Marcin Cieslak <saper at system.pl>:

> 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.

I assume it doesn't do any flash 8+ sites, does it?  Sites are  
changing to require flash [8,9] daily:(  Youtube works fine with the  
flash7 plugin.

Some bounties have been offered, there was one for 200 dls. and I  
offered to add 100 more.  It was focused on the flashplugin but  
anything that a regular user (read wives) could use without  
complaining, would be great, EMO.  Maybe someone who is a commiter and  
would take charge of judging and paying the bounty, I feel others  
would chip in and maybe we could make it worthwhile.

Thanks,

ed