> 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.
well, a 8.5 player for linux would be ok, too :) i keep checking the job opening Tinic linked to from his blog entry every other week or so, hoping it would go away: http://www.macromedia.com/macromedia/hr/reqs/engineering/2907br.html my guess is that as long as this position isn't closed the player is still far off. i know you want to release a linux player, and that you want it to be good. but it's getting increasingly frustrating to come across more and more sites that require FP8 and not being able to use them without launching a windows firefox under wine. "flash platform" really shouldn't mean "windows & mac only". it would be nice if you could communicate that to the powers that be. mark On 12/1/05, John Dowdell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- http://snafoo.org/ jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
