Presumably the "new standard" is SVG. SVG animation, AFAIK, is not yet quite in the same league re Flash in terms of tools and support.
-walter On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Steve Holton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Rob Savoye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Carol Lerche wrote: > > > > Once again I get depressed about everyone's dependence on proprietary > > formats, even for worthy causes. :-( > > > > > > > specific case of Adobe flash, it would be excellent if someone friendly > to > > > the project could approach Adobe and ask that they allow the plugin to > be > > > packaged for distribution during school deployments. > > > > Adobe has been approached many times by various OLPC people in the > > past about this... which is why the XO ships Gnash instead. Rather than > > continuing to have a nasty dependency on a large company with > > proprietary formats that prefers to make money from software licensing, > > (translation: we want to avoid this...) > > > > we'd do better to support Gnash getting more compatible faster. > > But here you lost me. > > Gnash will *never* be fully compatible with Flash because the closer > Gnash gets to being a viable free Flash replacement, the more > incentive there is for Adobe to change the Flash specification in a > way to break compatibility. > > Two decades in the Microsoft format wars should have taught that > lesson to everyone by now. Look how long (and how much) it's taken ODF > to get where it's at. > > OTOH, the XO offers us an opportunity to create a new standard among > an audience which has no investment in the old. But this is a limited > opportunity. > > (The point is largely moot. Adobe realizes the market will be very > limited for Flash-type services among third-world XO users with > limited internet connectivity and bandwidth. But other proprietary > vendors such as Intel and Microsoft have much more to lose if the > children of the world are exposed to non-proprietary technology by the > millions. It should be clear that Microsoft's generous offer to port > Windows XP to the XO is motivated by exactly this business rationale.) > > -- > Steve Holton > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Walter Bender One Laptop per Child http://laptop.org _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
