On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 04:16:03PM +0200, David Nielsen wrote: > tor, 07 09 2006 kl. 15:52 +0200, skrev Patrice Dumas: > > Gnash cvs is very promising and very actively developed. There's also > libfad which aims to provide full flash backend using cairo which should > be blazing fast. I wouldn't take this defeatist stance towards free > software, we've come very far in a short time with these technologies. I don't know about libfad, but gnash is based on GameSWF so it isn't such a short time if it is taken into account. I maintain gnash in fedora, I follow and contribute to upstream, and I truely believe that in some time it will be a perfect player, but right now it is not usable for the common web surfing cases. It is not defeatism, but realism. Anyway I think that free software will always be late when there is a need to implement closed formats, since there is a need to reverse engineer the format. When it isn't patented, in case it is even forbidden to deal with those formats outside of the free world. As long as proprietary formats are used, proprietary apps will certainly be better than free apps for some time. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
