Alias wrote: >>I don't think any OS player will substitute to the official one on the >>platform supported by Adobe (mainly Windows and Mac). There is no direct >>gain for the end-user so it doesn't make sense to switch the player. For >>instance Firefox was a relative success only because IE security >>problems and some global improved experience (tabs). >> > > > Hi Nicholas, > > I disagree. Yesterday a member of the Mozilla Foundation posted to the > Gnash list, requesting that Gnash be moved to the LGPL licence, so > that it could be bundled with the Mozilla browser. If the OS plugin is > bundled with the standard Firefox browser, it could, very rapidly, > gain a substantial market share. > > It's early days yet, which is why I'm pointing this out now, rather > than a year or two down the line. > > Cheers, > Alias
This will not happen at the detriment of users. Mozilla will not include a buggy or incompatible player by default that would not please the end users of Firefox. So you can assume that if one day Gnash is embedded within Firefox, it will be stable and compatible. If at this time Gnash team choose to extend the player, which I don't think is their goal at all, the market share of Firefox might not be significant enough for developpers to use theses extensions, or else they will need to ensure that the user are using Firefox, which is possible in some particular cases (software for entreprise internal services for instance). Nicolas _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list osflash@osflash.org http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
