"Hey client, can you install this plugin instead?" "No, I already have Flash."
"But... it's better." "Nope, and I'm not having IT install a new build into their existing infrastructure." ------------- "Hey... your SWF works fine in the Flash Player, but not in the Mod-Player..." "I don't care." "You better care, we love that player." "Um... you start paying me to debug in it, and I'll care." Sorry man, while I support people building other players to offer additional ideas to Adobe to build into the existing Flash Player, in actual production, they'd only be useful to me if they ran on the desktop. Because of the 2 example scenarios above, getting clients to install an additional plugin when they one they have already works, and having large IT institutions examine yet another piece of technology, it wouldn't work for me. Still, any alternative player that runs differently on the desktop is pretty cool. There was a huge influx of hardware accelerated Flash Players a few years back that were really cool; seeing my .SWF run at 999fps was... well... frikin' awesome. But, I only expect that to work on the desktop, not in a web browser. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonas Beckeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Open Source Flash Mailing List'" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 12:21 PM Subject: [osflash] OS Flash Player My apologies for persisting... but I'd really like to hear your opinions on this very imaginary example: I complete my open source Flash player. It can play back any swf correctly. Mr X writes a browser plugin for it - assign .swf MIME in your browser to it and it will be used instead of Macromedia's player. It becomes hugely popular because of its superior speed (hello pixel shaders! ;) I live in Sweden. Mr X and the download server is in Nauru. It's all open source. Nobody makes any money from it. Adobe gets upset. What happens next? /Jonas -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.9/216 - Release Date: 2005-12-29 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
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