John Giotta wrote: > Has anyone heard anything about a Player 8 for Linux release date?
I haven't seen any hard info yet. (Right now there are a whole bunch of questions about the future piled up behind the final governmental approvals of the mergers, and I suspect things like Linux are tied in with the bunch.) As Tim noted, as the Player adds more features, it becomes more difficult to support them on operating systems with fewer media architectures: http://www.kaourantin.net/2005/08/porting-flash-player-to-alternative.html I also know that the 8.5 Player throws a monkeywrench into any 8.0 porting -- I haven't heard any official word on this, but it seems trickier to do two separate ports in succession, where one port would have a life of only a few months. So... I'm sorry, I don't have any solid info here yet. I'm hoping we get some soon. The above are some of the ingredients that go into the decisionmaking, but I'm still not sure which way things would play out. The overall goal is to make people happy, if that general orientation is useful. jd -- John Dowdell . Macromedia Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://www.macromedia.com/go/blog_jd Aggregator: http://www.macromedia.com/go/weblogs Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
