2008/8/27 Nadav Har'El <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm a bit curious - why do you consider changing from WMV to Flash important > for Linux or Firefox users? >
Because I personally have never been able to play embedded WMV in the browser on Linux, yet I've never had a problem playing embedded Flash. WMV as a standalone file plays fine in VLC and Mplayer, though. Additionally, I understand that Windows Firefox users have a hard time playing WMV content in Firefox, yet the Flash plugin must be easy to install. This is more a victory for Firefox than for Linux, but promoting Firefox at any website set precedent for other sites to be Firefox-friendly, or in other words, not require IE. At least they are admitting that not everyone can be forced to use IE. > Last time I checked, most Linux distributions could play neither WMV nor > Flash movies out of the box, but software to do both is available for free. > Software to play WMV is even available as free software (e.g., mplayer)? > Or am I missing something? For playing standalone files, yes. Content embedded in the browser is another matter. > I think we have a much, much, bigger problem with sites (the most notorious > are the banks) which instead of using ordinary links and (if they must) > standard Javascript, use IE-specific tricks. You can't get around these > problems by installing any additional software... Correct 100%. Please let me know which banks those are and I will write to them and call them. I encourage you to do the same. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü
