Flash developers actually *concerned* because of Gnash. They fear having different players will make development more difficult. With a single Flash player one can be sure that a movie works everywhere.
Right, so following that logic, the internet would be a better place if there were only Internet Explorer (or NCSA Mosaic) and no other browser had ever been written. Anyway, you still need to test your movies on windows linux and mac and their enormously expensive embedded players if you want to improve the movie's visibility. A professional would test on various different old versions of flash player as well, since I doubt that people running win3.1 *can* upgrade to the latest flash player (yes, they do, all over the world), and we remember the MacroMedia linux port lagging behind the latest whizzo one by a version or two for ages and ages. Given the dodginess and ever increasing resource-hungriness of most commercial program upgrades, some people may not *want* to upgrade. My own experience with many different browsers led me to use simpler, faster HTML constructs that work absolutely everywhere as far as I know; I welcome the stimulus to Flash developers to do the same. In fact, having gnash available for your existing flash dev platform makes it *more* likely that your flash movie will work on platforms that you cannot test. M _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
