> (we can use .swf format to make it as > animation) its just one of much works that it can do for us ;)
Elisa is right about Flash. Although it is more and more used on the Internet, this is closed technology that is badly implemented (heavy CPU load for doing nearly nothing). We had to wait for years to have the official flash player released on Linux 64 bits – because it's closed source. The same is happening for architecture not x86, eg. ARM. Plus the license for distribution: you can not share or host it publicly or on your company's Intranet without first asking its majesty Adobe… (read the license!) And the worse: flash is directly connected to the Internet through the web browser and we can't look inside at what it is really doing on our computers… I really don't like this above all (just like Skype or MSN or Google bar or etc. :p). I know I'm tending to think like R.M. Stallman ;) but after years of IT market understanding, it seems to me that he sadly is right. :( Anyway we also need to use technologies that are “light”: low CPU usage, low memory usage, low disk usage. Because we want DDL be used on any computer, not only the latest desktop ones ;). So this is another topic to open: which compiled libraries can be used to achieve nice animations with those constraints? I currently don't have an answer. We still have weeks to think about this. Well, nothing absolutely positive about flash in the end in my opinion. For all the above reasons there is no flash in DDL. Not even the free software implementation gnash I think: no youtube for children! Cheers, JM. _______________________________________________ Doudoulinux-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-dev
