On 8/6/07, Zárate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Java was not open source before ), has different VMs for different > Platforms. " > > Flash is exactly the same. Let me sum up: > > Windows, Mac and Linux > player 9 > Flash Lite 2.1 > Player 7 + extras > Flash player for Pocket PC > player 7 > PSP player > Sort of player 6, but incomplete and buggy. > > Let alone as Benjamin says "small details" such as wmode, seamless > tabbing, screen readers and other really important bugs and features > not implemented for long time. >
don't want to be an a** but screen reader missing feature for Flash Lite and PSP player is kind of a joke "hey why not hook my screen reader to use my cell phone or my PSP"...scenario "hey where's my TAB key on that cellphone ?"...scenario etc. I mean, ok to have a synched version of the flash player everywhere it's possible, but the above arguments really does not bring anything. I could even return this argument, Flash player Lite can play midi files, Flash player (browser plugin) can not does that make sens ? I think yes Here another argument: it's not because something is open source that it is obviously better and spread better as "have to use tool", take the ogg vorbis format for audio, it's been around for quite some time now technically it got better features than the mp3 format and wouhou it's open source, but you know what ? how many people do use it on a daily basis ? is it more widespread than the mp3 format ? mind me, if the flash player were open source, and some people contributed ogg playback inside flash, that would be cool for us geeks btu the mainstream would still want to use mp3 first. so yeah you can blame Macromedia/Adobe to have a closed source flash player and because of that you're stuck and can not playback ogg file format or whatever else features you're missing but on the other end Macromedia/Adobe did implemented the most wanted feature: playback mp3, and also most of the other features that make sens. cheers, zwetan _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
