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Feeling Frightfully Forever Flashless?

Posted by Cliff on from the people-perplexed-by-the-pittance-of-plugins dept.

ghost_crab asks: "After finally getting the guts to fdisk all my M$ problems away, I find myself happier and less stressed. Now all I want for Christmas is a good, solid Flash editor, a la Macromedia's Flash, or even Adobe's Live Motion, neither of which run well with WINE. I have queried both companies for projected *nix releases, and both have instead emphatically supported the EvilEmpire. A search with Google and of SourceForge gives one little hope. Is anyone working on Flash for Linux? Open Source or Not - I would be thrilled to pay for a good Flash Editor. Is there hope for those of us who claim to be graphic designers yet cannot stomach Windows for even one more day?" Is there anyone out there working on replacements for the plugins that are only available for Windows?

Flash support on Linux has always been questionable for me. I can get it to work in Netscape Communicator. Mozilla doesn't seem to want to recognize the plugin and Konqueror? Well, Konqueror just locks up hard when it encounters Flash content...either that or it throws up lots of windows when it tries to go to Macromedia's site, which bothers me to no end. Unless other OSes gain access to richer-than-HTML-content, their users will slowly find themselves left behind in a web that's becoming more and more centered on Win32-only content, which would not be a good thing.

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  1. Cross-Over by DaoudaW · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    In response to Cliff's comment I've had good success with Codeweavers Cross-Over plugin on Navigator and Konqueror. It works in Mozilla, ie, it doesn't crash, but the video is screwed up.

    But ghost crab was mostly asking for an editor, not a plug-in. Let me add Authorware to the list of needed editors.

  2. Flash has A good use... by deggy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    One title "Throwing your poo at kids in the zoo" from bitemymonkey.com. Best thing i've seen in ages!

    1. Re:Flash has A good use... by Valdrax · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Personally, I far prefer "lolo" at evilzug.com, but I'm just more of a class-act.

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  3. Mozilla and flash plugin by Tet · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    Mozilla doesn't seem to want to recognize the plugin

    Odd. It Just Worked for me. I've been using the flash plugin in Mozilla since 0.8 or so without too many problems. In fact, the only major problem I have it that it hangs the browser if another application has /dev/dsp open and a flash movie tries to do sound until the first app is closed. Oh, and of course it doesn't work on my non-x86 Linux boxen (currently Sparc and Alpha). But I don't really miss flash enough to bothered to try Olivier Debon's free flash plugin. As others have pointed out, there are options for flash authoring under Unix, but I can't say I've needed to use them (but then I've never yet come across a web site that benefited from having flash).

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  4. flashion by anasophist · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    considered harmful,
    not evolutionary:
    web neanderthal.

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