Frank Denis wrote:
Le Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 03:36:07PM -0500, Matthew Szudzik ecrivait :
Adobe released Flash Player 9 for Linux today. (I know, it's not
open-source, but it's sometimes hard to navigate the web without it.)
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200701/011707FlashPlayerLinux.html
Well, I see two ways of having flash work with native apps:
- linuxpluginwrapper: this is an horrible hack for DragonflyBSD and
FreeBSD.
It's an userland linux to openbsd functions wrapper. Scary, but it
works. It
easily compiles on OpenBSD but don't expect it to run without much
tweaking.
- GenRes, a generic scriptable plugin. It's designed to use external
programs for EMBED and OBJECT tags , like OpenOffice documents, mplayer,
etc.
Is there a standalone Flash 9 player for Linux, or is it easy to build one
around the plugin? If this is the case, we could get Flash 9 run as an
external Linux app, and GenRes would be the bridge to Firefox / Seamonkey /
Konqueror.
That strongly reminds me of Microsoft ActiveX. And we all know the
security problems with that.
Best regards,
