Lightspark 0.4.2 Open Source Flash Player Released

suraj.sun writes "The Lightspark project has released version 0.4.2 of its free, open source Flash player. According to Lightspark developer Alessandro Pignotti, the alternative Flash Player implementation is 'designed from the ground up to be efficient on current and (hopefully) future hardware.' The latest release of Lightspark features better compatibility with YouTube videos, sound synchronization support and the ability to use fontconfig for font selection. Other changes include plug-in support for Google's Chrome/Chromium web browser and support for Firefox's out of process plug-in (OOPP) mode, which was added in version 3.6.4 of the browser."

Comments

Re:embrace and extend

[natehoy]

It won't, however, answer Apple's biggest reason for not wanting to support Flash.

Flash is, simply, a proprietary format that they don't have any patent control over. They want h264, which is a proprietary format controlled by a consortium they are a major member of.

Apple wants Flash dead. They don't want it open, they don't want it closed, they don't want it with cherries and whipped cream on top. They want it dead. It's something they cannot control, and therefore it must die.

Re:The best feature they could add...

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe, maybe not.

But that condescending reply in response to an informal feature request is terrible.
You give open source a bad name.

Hulu

[TechwoIf]

Will it work with www.hulu.com?

Re:That's just as wrong as mono

[mandelbr0t]

i386 protected mode OS
ext2/3
emacs
Perl, Python and others
decss
bayesian spam filtering
eclipse

To name a few more. Proprietary is not necessarily first, just the first to try and make profit from the project.