On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:28:30 +0200, lee wrote: > Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes:
(...) >> OTOH, html5 is now at the corner, my hope is that Flash Player for the >> web dies in a very near future... > > There is also the possibility that they come up with a new version for > other OSs. They could add features in the new version that make it > impossible to play videos which are compatible with the new version with > the old one. Once the old version is incompatible, there's no point in > continuing to provide security updates for it. Should that happens, you will have to choose: looking for a proper replacement of the plugin or simply avoid sites that make use of an unsupported feature in your system. > Well, there's not point in worrying about it. We'll see what happens. I never liked the Flash Player concept: it simply breaks the way html stands for. Anyway, which today standards in our hands, I do not see much future for what Flash Player is currently designed for and provides. Maybe it was "nice and cool" (sigh) 10 years ago but not know (and needless to say it's buggy as hell). >> I mean what problem you had with Adobe Flash Player. The rest of the >> flash player implementations fail in a way or another. > > It sometimes works, sometimes doesn't, depending on the website you're > looking at. Some want you to download some software. It's just > retarded. Uh? Can you please point to a site where Adobe Flash Player does not work? This sort of problems are generated by wrong html coding for embedding the Flash Player plugin, nothing Adobe Flash Player can solve. >>> So how do I make it so that seamonkey uses mplayer to play all videos? >>> You seem to think there's no problem with that. >> >> Yes, because there's no problem with that unless you explicety mention >> one. There are (or "there were", I hope they are still there!) plugins >> to view flash videos from Mozilla browsers using mplayer -or another >> video player- as backend. > > Ok, then how do I do that? I usually go to Google and search for it >:-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k3cino$s2t$4...@ger.gmane.org
