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RealPlayer To Incorporate Mozilla

Posted by Hemos on from the adding-yet-more-functionality dept.

Will in Seattle writes "cNet has a story on RealNetworks using code from Mozilla.org's open-source browser code in a private-label version of its media player and server for Web broadcaster Global Media. This version lets RealNetworks' system stream and display Web elements including HTML and Macromedia Flash animation files, and you can download their mods here. "

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  1. Is this really necessary? by Vector7 · · Score: 5

    Do we really need to get the roles of all our software tangled and confused like this? Wouldn't life be much simpler if everything was logically divided into seperate applications (browser, mail, news, video players, etc.), rather than gargantuan applications that try to do all of the above, to varying extents?

    Anyone think that the "minibrowser" or whatever in WinAmp is the most ridiculous thing you've ever seen?

    On a somewhat different, some would argue that excessive use of streaming media and abuse of HTML for really complex designs (strung together with Javascript, with all kinds of animated silliness) is really undesirable. Abusing standards just for a little graphical flair is really a bad thing anyway - it makes it both more difficult for users to view your content (by narrowing the range of browsers that can view it correctly), and makes it difficult for future software to evolve when so much effort must be spent on preserving backward compatibility.

    Thoughts ?

  2. Not e-mail anymore... by Paul+Neubauer · · Score: 5

    Once upon a time it was...

    Any program will grow until it can read mail.

    But now it seems...

    Any program will expand until it can browse the web.

    How about one job per program?

    --
    I don't subscribe to RMS's GNUtopian vision.