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Interview With Linux Flash Player's Lead Engineer
An anonymous reader writes, "Ryan Stewart of ZDNet has an interview with Mike Melanson, the lead engineer behind Adobe's upcoming Flash Player 9 for Linux. It covers what the plans are for the player, what kinds of things won't be in the Linux player that are in the other players, and ways to give Adobe input on the Linux player."
Like, why does flash 9 for linux suck horribly compared to all the earlier releases? When are you going to release a fixed version that actually works right or at least comperable to the mac or windows versions?
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
What a load. Not that I even have Flash installed on anything since it's a useless piece of adware. 80% of Flash usage is for annoying ads. And when it is used for something other, it is slow, cumbersome, and unneccessarily complex. Try removing Flash and see how many ads go away. It's so nice. But, anyway, we have someone talking about how this Linux version is supposed to come out WHEN? Why even bother if they aren't gonna release it? Gee, they have to release it as a binary because they don't want us to compile it because we would be able to see the source code and probably make it better for them. While I agree with the point about the packaging problem in regards to Linux, if they are gonna support it, then they should just compile it for all the distros and versions of the distros like everyone else does. Even the popular Youtube site just uses Flash as a wrapper for WMV files. Anyway, they will only support x86-32, so all the other Linux users who want it like x86-64, PPC, etc will be let out once again. If they would release it as a compilable program, it could actually be used on all kinds of platforms. Oh well