On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 04:42:24PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Here is a candid assisement of swfdec's suitablility they solicited from > Benjamin. > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2008-January/msg00084.html
Looking into that link, there seem to be two reasons Benjamin gives that speak in favour of Gnash: "Swfdec has not had a lot of exposure yet" (Gnash is having huge deployments as part of the OLPC laptop distribution) "Another issue coupled with the above is that the Swfdec plugin runs in-process in the browser. [1] This of course means that when Swfdec crashes, your browser is gone, too." (Gnash runs as a standalone process) I think the "click before run" feature in a way makes stability a hidden factor. It'd be trivial to implement the same feature in Gnash, if desired, but I think the result is that it makes Swfdec look more stable in comparison, which could be somewhat deceitful. -- Robert Millan "The technological evasion of the license is as unacceptable as the legal evasion of the license [...]. That's the provision in section 1 regarding keys. [...] We say one thing: when you sell somebody a home... give him the keys" -- Eben Moglen on GPLv3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
