Feeling Frightfully Forever Flashless?

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.

Comments

Eww, stay away.

[bluGill]

I'm sure flash is useful for something, but I've never had a flash plug in on my computer and never missed it. Lynx works great for 95% of the web sites I work with, and the rest are either broken (you must have javascript and a 4.x browser to use, even though if I manually bypass those warnings it works), or accually have content that relys on graphics.

Do you really need flash? Are you sure. I'm sure there are people who will answer yes. I wouldn't expect a artist to produce anything that is useful to the blind, and I wouldn't expect their websites to work without images. The are likewise similear examples of other catagories that need extra content. Most places that have flash don't have anything to do with something that needs it.

Re:Flash: 99% Bad

[jasno]

This seems to be a recurring problem whenever you ask a linux guy anything. Instead of an answer to your question, you get a 5 minute rant telling you why you really shouldn't do what you want to do.

ugh.