Re: Re:

[Eli Scot <dragonfly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At the same time, though, Flash is slowly becoming a necesity on the
web.  It's definitely annoying here on my x86-64 linux box - just about
every other page asks me if I want to install the plugin.  I don't think
you'll be able to stop flash, unfortunately.  Plus, there's one thing
that flash does really well that PHP really can't touch yet -
animation.  I mean...strongbad, man! =)  Something that would be nice is
a nice, opensource, SVG-based web animation program to mimic what flash
does.

-Eli
On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 16:50, David Rhodus wrote:
> I really dislike flash. As for any type of quick application like that
> I think everyone should use a web based application written in PHP.
> 
> On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:57:06 -0400, George Georgalis <george@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Please sign petition for flash on *BSD.
> > http://arameus.net/petition/index.php
> > 
> > On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 02:52:31PM -0400, Bob Ippolito wrote:
> > >On Aug 15, 2004, at 12:45 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
> > >
> > >>A BSD enthusiast on the BSD forums has posted a petition to sign to be
> > >>sent to Macromedia asking for a BSD flash version.
> > >>
> > >>Regardless of what we feel about flash pages :), it does seem a way to
> > >>let a vendor know that BSD is major market.
> > >>
> > >>The petition is at
> > >>http://arameus.net/petition/index.php
> > >>
> > >>At present there are still very few (48 or so) signatures.
> > >
> > >Flash isn't just for web pages; it's pretty important for embedded
> > >applications.  It's definitely the quickest and cheapest way to develop
> > >a custom GUI (no standard widgets, which is fine for touchscreen apps).
> > > I know of several companies that develop Linux based kiosk systems
> > >that use Flash.  I've worked on a few in the past.  Having another OS
> > >option would be nice.
> > >
> > >-bob
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