Web Browsers.

[William Ashworth]

All,

Couldn't you just install linux binary compatability to accomplish this?

Thanks,
William Ashworth



----- Original Message -----
From: "Johnson David" <DavidJohnson at Siemens.com>
To: "Charlie Clark" <charlie at begeistert.org>
Cc: "FreeBSD-Newbies" <freebsd-newbies at FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: Web Browsers.


> On Wednesday 02 April 2003 10:53 am, Charlie Clark wrote:
>
> > so the Linux plug-in will run on BSD if Linux compatability is
> > enabled? How dependent is this on XFree86 and any window manager on
> > top of this: I guess the runtime is quite easy to encapsulate and the
> > rest should be calls to XFree86 / KDE, aren't they?
>
> You need Linux compatibility enabled. But because of the way plugins
> work, you need both the linux plugin AND a linux browser. But you don't
> need linux X or a linux window manager.
>
> > Hold your horses: Flash was developed at a time when there was no
> > alternative for that kind of content (AWT / Swing was and still is
> > IMHO a joke and also just as proprietary) and Flash has its uses just
> > like PDF from Adobe does.
>
> The difference between Flash and PDF is that PDF is a standard. I do not
> need any permission from Adobe to create PDF files. I can use
> Ghostscript instead. I can use Ghostview, KGhostview, xpdf, or a
> million other applications to view PDF files. But with Flash I am
> dependent upon Macromedia for both creation and access. I can create a
> PDF document with the complete knowledge that ALL current and future
> operating systems will be able to access it.
>
> I am not requesting that Macromedia make a FreeBSD plugin of flash.
> Instead I am requesting that they either make flash a standard by
> publishing complete specs, or stop pretending that it is a standard.
>
> > While it would be nice for Macromedia to
> > maintain a BSD-Flash player I can understand why they don't. On BeOS
> > a third party, the General Coffee Company developed and released
> > their own player so this should be possible on BSD.
>
> There is ongoing work to create an open source flash player. But without
> complete specs on the format, it is very difficult. I strongly suspect
> that General Coffee Company had to pay Macromedia some money in order
> to write their BeOS player.
>
> David
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