Hello Rob, Monday, November 27, 2006, 4:10:38 PM, you wrote: RS> Personally, any flash developer scared of Gnash should just ignore us, RS> and live in their tightly closed world. I've read some of same blogs, RS> and if this attitude prevailed, we wouldn't have projects like Firefox, RS> OpenOffice, etc...
Well, they can't ignore it in the long turn when they want to create working website. RS> My gut feeling is the extension mechanism is primarily for embedded RS> platforms, as it'll let people add more hardware specific classes. Agree. RS> At RS> the same time, current Flash implementations are pretty limited, really. RS> What if you want to access a real SQL database from a Flash movie ? RS> Access a GPS so your Flash based GIS software works on your PDA ? Agree. That's why I think extensions are a great thing. RS> Some people will want to use extensions on the desktop, but that'll RS> probably be less common. As long as Gnash is compatible with the Adobe RS> player, nobody should notice any difference when web browsing. If it RS> gets to where Gnash becomes popular enough that people are doing RS> interesting things with Gnash extensions on the desktop, then that's RS> life, and Adobe can add support for plugins too. After all, all of our RS> code is visible. That's my point. Compatibility is very important.. Udo _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
