In reply to Paul Schwebel's words, written Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:45:38 -0700 (PDT)
I just fired up Mozilla (running MDK8.0) and that works just A-OK on the site. Paul >Yesterday, I was trying to show of the 'better' OS >(Mandrake 8.1) to my daughter, who is a major Harry >Potter fan. We went to the Warner Brother's site >(http://www.harrypotter.com) to 'enroll' in Hogwarts >and go to the Quidditch practice pages. But I kept >getting told that I had to install Flash and >Shockwave. I checked the plugins on the browser (I >tried both Netscape and Mozilla (and Konqueror for >that matter)) and they appeared to be installed, but >still not working. > >I tried installing from macromedia's website, but that >effort kept crashing the browser. > >Which leads me to the questions: > >1. What browsers in Linux support Flash and Shockwave? >2. Why didn't the installed plugins work? Version >conflict? > >I'm trying to convert the family to Linux, but with >demonstrations like these, I just proved to my >daughter that things work more smoothly in Windoze. >Yuck. > >-Paul "Well, how did I get here?" Schwebel > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. >http://personals.yahoo.com > > -- We must always have old memories and young hopes. -Arsene Houssaye http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.6.3 claws Open Source, Open Minds. Linux.
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