Ken, Assuming the web-based content you want to display is just Flash, you might be able to use the swfdec-mozilla package.
>From this >thread<http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/thread.cfm/threadid:15992>, Flash is a subset of Director. Ben On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Jordan Erickson < [email protected]> wrote: > There is no (and most likely will never be) a Shockwave Director plugin > for Linux (see online petition with 35k signatures here: > http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?linuxswp ). You could > try using it with wine or cxoffice, but in my experience this doesn't > work well in a TC environment at all. You'd probably be better off > trying to get the website to change their platform. This is a big issue > with SRA Open Court Online ( http://www.opencourtonline.com/ ) as well. > It really sucks there's no workaround. It'd be nice if Flash had a > Shockwave emulation mode or something, but I have no idea if that's even > technically feasible. There's closed source software for ya, though. > > > Cheers, > Jordan/Lns > > > > Ken Campbell wrote: > > My school district is using Pearson web based product called envision. > Using > > edubuntu 8.04 lab, thin client logs into this subscription based > > application. > > Within moments user is prompted to install shockwave. Session comes to > > abrupt halt. Research shows Linux not yet supporting shockwave. Anyone > else > > encounter this type issue and if so, possible workaround? > > Thanks > > > > Kenneth Campbell > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Jordan Erickson > Owner, Logical Networking Solutions > http://www.logicalnetworking.net > 707-636-5678 > > Latest LNS Blogs - http://blog.logicalnetworking.net > > My venture into "Virtual Fridays" > University Makes iPods, iPhones Mandatory for Freshmen > Google Gets Goats to Mow Lawn at Company Headquarters > > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users >
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