Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenBSD

2007-01-18 Thread Alexander Farber
Hi, On 1/17/07, Darrin Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: most "real" content in flash is about using the newest coolest features to get across what could easily be done in plain old HTML. Most clicked item on the web: "Skip Intro" sorry, you are wrong: there is some very cool flash stuff: l

Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenBSD

2007-01-18 Thread RedShift
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/200701/011707Fl

Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenBSD

2007-01-17 Thread Frank Denis
Le Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 05:14:33PM -0800, Marco S Hyman ecrivait : Frank Denis writes: > Well, I see two ways of having flash work with native apps: And these methods work on my hppa box? Or my Sparc64 box? Or on any non-i386/amd64 box? The second method could work through qemu :)

Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenBSD

2007-01-17 Thread Nick Guenther
On 1/17/07, besnard michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, i also use opera with flash plugin what about : packages/i386/flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz it's a standalone flash player but on the website http://www.swift-tools.net/Flash/ it's also a netscape plugin based on GPL license so i get the source

Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenBSD

2007-01-17 Thread Greg Thomas
On 1/17/07, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/17/07, Travers Buda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:29:20 -0500 > "Nick Guenther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Seeing the hardline the devs take against driver binary blobs it's > > unlikely. However, I am looki

Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenBSD

2007-01-17 Thread besnard michel
hi, i also use opera with flash plugin what about : packages/i386/flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz it's a standalone flash player but on the website http://www.swift-tools.net/Flash/ it's also a netscape plugin based on GPL license so i get the source and try to compile it on OB 4.0 but some errors stop the

Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenBSD

2007-01-17 Thread Marco S Hyman
Frank Denis writes: > Well, I see two ways of having flash work with native apps: And these methods work on my hppa box? Or my Sparc64 box? Or on any non-i386/amd64 box? // marc

Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenBSD

2007-01-17 Thread Frank Denis
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

Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenBSD

2007-01-17 Thread Matthew Szudzik
> Don't forget that both opera and opera-flashplugin are in the ports > tree. The new "linux flash" if supported, would probably be used > in a similar fashion (compat et al..) but it uses ALSA. As you know, > ALSA is the (advanced) linux sound architecture. This is a problem that > would consume t

Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenBSD

2007-01-17 Thread prad
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:55:12 -0700 Darrin Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most clicked item on the web: "Skip Intro" > exactly!! i find gnash to be more than enough (and was quite happy previously without it - if i didn't see it, i figured i wasn't missing anything). if i get really despera

Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenBSD

2007-01-17 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 02:41:56PM -0800, Marco S Hyman wrote: > gnash (last tried was their cvs version as of about 1 month ago) > would play maybe 30% of the flash I ran into on my amd64. It > has a long way to go to become usable. If enabled I found that > it played just about all of the "adv

Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenBSD

2007-01-17 Thread Marco S Hyman
> gnash looks very cool, but as of right now, it still can't play strongbad > email, nor google video. gnash (last tried was their cvs version as of about 1 month ago) would play maybe 30% of the flash I ran into on my amd64. It has a long way to go to become usable. If enabled I found that

Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenBSD

2007-01-17 Thread Jeremy Huiskamp
On 17-Jan-07, at 4:29 PM, Nick Guenther wrote: Seeing the hardline the devs take against driver binary blobs it's unlikely. Not that this is reason to support it, but there's obviously a monumental difference between a driver and a browser plugin. However, I am looking forward myself to 4

Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenBSD

2007-01-17 Thread Peter Hessler
On 2007 Jan 17 (Wed) at 16:29:20 -0500 (-0500), Nick Guenther wrote: :Seeing the hardline the devs take against driver binary blobs it's :unlikely. However, I am looking forward myself to 4.1, because Gnash : has been added to ports and upon :release it will beco

Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenBSD

2007-01-17 Thread Nick Guenther
On 1/17/07, Travers Buda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:29:20 -0500 "Nick Guenther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Seeing the hardline the devs take against driver binary blobs it's > unlikely. However, I am looking forward myself to 4.1, because Gnash >

Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenBSD

2007-01-17 Thread Travers Buda
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:29:20 -0500 "Nick Guenther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Seeing the hardline the devs take against driver binary blobs it's > unlikely. However, I am looking forward myself to 4.1, because Gnash > has been added to ports and upon > rel

Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenBSD

2007-01-17 Thread Nick Guenther
On 1/17/07, Matthew Szudzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 Do we expec

Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenBSD

2007-01-17 Thread Trond Danielsen
2007/1/17, Matthew Szudzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 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 Do we expect OpenB

Re: Flash Player 9 on OpenBSD

2007-01-17 Thread Trond Danielsen
Sorry about the wrong link it the previous post. The correct link to flashsupport is: http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Flash_Player:Additional_Interface_Support_for_Linux

Flash Player 9 on OpenBSD

2007-01-17 Thread Matthew Szudzik
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 Do we expect OpenBSD to support Flash 9 in the near future? The old