James Dumay wrote:
XUL is Mozilla only (open source lockin anyone?)
Its bullshit that people think that this sort of stuff needs to be done in
flv - embedding an mpeg stream is easy enough todo in HTML.
This reminds me of the problems St George Bank had using Java applets
and acres of bad javascript to allow online banking. After thousands of
complaints they dropped the Java applet and javascript and reverted to
(gasp) html forms. No more problems or complaints.
The pattern seems to be that internet platform incompatibilities arise
with unnecessary levels of complexity. Good old "right click to download
mp3 file" is all that anybody wants/needs.
Rod
Rod
James
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This one time, at band camp, James Purser wrote:
With regard to your query regarding a Linux version - due to the
technical requirements of ABC Now we have been unable to find a
robust and secure tool for making the Flash based code into a stable
Linux version at this time.
Translation:
We made a technology decision without reference to portability. You pay
the price.
We are keeping an eye on developments in this area and hope to bring
a Linux version to you as soon as practicable.
XULRunner, anyone?!?!?
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