Flash plugins

[Kamil Paral]

----- "Chris Campbell" <campbecg at cox.net> wrote:

> This probably isn't the best place to write this, but here it is
> anyway.
> Flash is one of the most-used mediums these days. From humorous
> little
> animations to full-fledged games, sites like Facebook have entire
> gaming
> systems all using Flash code.
> 
> I am one of the volunteer triagers and I have been working on
> Mozilla-related bugs for several months now. These bugs include
> Firefox,
> Thunderbird, SeaMonkey and Epiphany, among other packages.
> 
> The two main Flash plugins most people use are Adobe's Flash Plugin
> and
> SWFDEC. Our problems here are: Adobe's plug-in is binary only
> (non-open-source), so when it breaks the using package (Firefox for
> instance) there is no possibility of working on the break, since we
> have
> no possibility of insight into the code. SWFDEC, according to the
> package manager/triager Thomas K., is no longer supported upstream.
> Therefor it's inclusion into Fedora will end with Fedora 12. It
> should
> no longer be included in Fedora 13.
> 
> There are other attempts at open-source Flash, but non are really
> usable
> at the moment.
> 
> So, I'm sending this out really to ensure that everyone is informed
> of
> the issue, and to see if anyone has any suggestions for possible
> plugin
> inclusion in the next generations of Fedora.
> 
> Chris

I think guys in the 'devel' list would have more insight into this
issue.