Thank you! And there's way more video sites than just youtube, and not all of them are as rip-happy as it.
But flash support is only a small part of browsers and not really the point. -Nick On 23/03/2009, Jacob Meuser <jake...@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 03:39:41PM -0700, patrick keshishian wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Nick Guenther <kou...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Also, youtube matters. This is going to get me flamed but a lot of >> > worthwhile content is in form of video now and not making that work >> > disenfranchises yourself. >> >> There are methods of fetching just the video off youtube if that's all >> you want. I think I've even seen at least two scripts in ports that >> just do that (www/youtube-dl is one and the other I can't recall its >> names off top of my head). I don't know how well they work; never used >> them myself. > > isn't that sorta like using ftp(1) to get JPEGs from sites you're > browsing with lynx(1)? > >> I agree with you on valuable/informative/entertaining content on youtube. >> >> Flash is open now, their specification docs were released. If it is >> important for folks, a truly open, reliable and secure versions >> should/could be implemented. > > I only got feedback from one person about swfdec update/sndio backend > addition. > > -- > jake...@sdf.lonestar.org > SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
