Till Schneidereit wrote: > can you point me to any source for your claims about Flash Player > availability on Linux? I've been looking for any information on that since > Tinic[1,2] and Emmy[2] posted about this topic. In these posts, Emmy came > closest to giving any information about the release date when she stated > "Based on the short time frame between announcing Flash Player 8 and Flash > Player 8.5, we decided to work on developing a Linux version for Flash Player > 8.5, which will ship after the Windows and Mac versions."
The current guidance I've seen is that a Adobe Flash Player 9 for Linux is expected after the Mac/Win releases, but I haven't seen any real time estimate offered, and I'm also not sure yet of which "Linux" are in the target mix. (These configurations and media services vary much more than Mac and Win base capabilities do.) I agree with Till that it's important that "Adobe is putting real resources into porting the player and doing it right"... from what I see, it's a vital part of the business to have universal, predictable viewing of both SWF and PDF, even though there may not be much of a direct financial return for that Linux work... the universality in itself is a key reward. jd -- John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna 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
