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Macromedia to Port Flash MX to Linux?
LnxAddct writes "An article on CNet reports that Macromedia will start taking Linux more seriously. It will start this new initiative by making it's suite of tools run easily under WINE, then depending on the response it gets, it will port it's tools natively to Linux! Their Chief Software Architect, Kevin Lynch, stated, 'What we've been investigating is, When will it be time to bring our tools to Linux? I think it might be happening now.' Maybe 2004 will be the year of Linux."
Considering how Flash makes the web experience all the more worse, this is not a good thing. What next, a happy news item that the major spam generating software has been ported to Linux too?
BE GONE TROLL, if you don't want to view Flash, uninstall the fucking plugin..
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try the Flash Click-to-Play extension. (click link to install in Mozilla/Firefox) It's solved my Flash problem completely :) I'd still like to castrate the perpetrators of Flash adverts with a grapefruit spoon, but now I have to actively press a button to be assaulted by it. The interactivity brings its own form of frustration relief when I'm forced to use the Flash.
On topic: of all the things this world needs least, I'd have to say that Flash development tools of any kind, regardless of source, are topping the list. Flash stinks. Flash is greedy, obnoxious, and yet people persist in manufacturing entire Flash websites!
Seriously, if Laila Ali didn't use it, i wouldn't even have the shitty player installed.
This isn't a good development for Linux at all. Nobody wins except for Macromedia.
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Agreed. The "legitimate" uses for Flash aren't enough to make those of us who know better install that intrusive, security-risk, annoying tech.
Flash designers: Make your website Flash only? I won't do business with you. HTML is the web. If you can't work within that framework, you're a worthless, talentless, idiotic web designer, and you should have been put out of work when the bubble burst.
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
Yea but if you're going to do all that just to get the opportunity to annoy people with Flash you're better off shooting yourself.
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
And those sites should be ignored by sane people. There is NO legitimate reason to use flash for navigation on the web That is what HTML is for. The only use that requiring flash for navigation has is an attempt to force people to install it so that shoskeles and other garbage can be forced on them.
If you are a talentless enough web designer to be incapable of providing STANDARD HTML navigation on your site, please be kind enough to remove yourself from the gene pool by drinking some fuckin draino.
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
HTML is capable of more than that, idiot.
There is nothing about navigating a website that flash does that HTML cannot. Apart from forcing intersticial ads, and generally wasting processor time on the client.
The web IS HTML. Macromedia does not, and will not dominate normal websites. Websites that rely entirely on Flash will generally be ignored.
THe web is meant to be hypertext with some images mixed in. There is no legitimate reason to add crap like full-screen forced ads and web pages that scream at you in surround sound. Unless you're a scumbag marketer that is...
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Except that you don't have to reboot Windows to update Office, so who knows what you're talking about.
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Does it do CMYK
No. Adobe has patents on it. The Gimp cannot, and will never, do CMYK correctly in any patent-encumbered area. Thanks Adobe.
No, you do in fact need to reboot windows when you install Office. Perhaps there are some cases where it's not necessary, but in my experience it always is.
Perhaps you should learn a little about your own OS of choice, instead of sitting on /. all the time insulting people for using Linux.
Seriously, why the fuck do you even read /.? Why don't you just piss off. At least stop trolling on the Linux stories...
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