John, While I am very keen on Gnash as a project, I would have thought you were better having the test for "Free format support" at a non-Flash level. With <video> tag support coming very soon in Free (and some non-free - e.g. Opera) browsers, that would seem the ideal way to deliver Free format support to those that can handle it. Supporting <video> tags would support the large Firefox-on-Windows community as well as those on Gnu/Linux, whereas supporting Free-formats-through-Flash would only target Gnu/Linux users who do not use the proprietary Flash player.
I am not sure on this, I thought that there were (Wikimedia or Metavid?) already scripts that test for <video> tag support and then fall back to the Java Cortado player. These should be able to be adapted (if you wish) to try <video> and fall back to FLV in Flash. A quick Google suggests: http://metavid.ucsc.edu/blog/2007/06/07/html5-video-the-future-is-now/ http://metavid.ucsc.edu/w/index.php/Mv_embed Once FF 3.1 is released, I doubt that there will be many Gnash users who cannot support <video> tags, whereas there will be a large group who can (and would very much like to) see Free formats in <video> tags who do not use Gnash. Please let me know if I have missed your point. Regards, Aaron -- FSF Associate Member: 5632 http://www.fsf.org _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list Gnash-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
