On 02/24/2015 11:22 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On 24 February 2015 at 06:01, Robert Moskowitz <rgm(a)htt-consult.com
<mailto:rgm@htt-consult.com>> wrote:
On 02/24/2015 06:53 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
Robert Moskowitz <rgm(a)htt-consult.com
<mailto:rgm@htt-consult.com>> wrote:
Went looking for the flash-plugin for arm, and
don't find one.
get.adobe.com/flashplayer
<
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer> thinks I need
the i386 version.
afaik none exists. I have heard of versions in the
past but they were
tied closely to proprietary X drivers and hardware
video acceleration.
and wouldnt work with what is in the fedora kernel. I
personally do not
have flash installed on my machines anymore.
What do you do for sites like
cnn.com <
http://cnn.com>? My
bank's home page uses flash, and I
get errors (of course you have flash!) before I can get to
the login spot.
Also if I am going to give this system to my parents, they
will not know how
to deal with a browser that does not handle flash.
Ultimately what do you expect us to do? This is out of our
hands, go
and complain to Adobe.
Mention alternatives.
Most of the alternatives are tied to the x86_xx platform because the
actionscript (what flash runs) was written from an all the world is
x86_32 world. There are a lot of hacks that Chrome had to do to get
flash sort of working in the google droid and apple completely dropped
it from their implementations because it eats battery and heats up the
cpu like a furnace. The mozilla alternative is a 80% solution of
translating actionscript to javascript but the 20% is usually the
stuff you are going to find is being used for some reason on the app.
What you are running into is what happens when you deal with an
alternative architecture. There is going to be whole classes of
software that you are not going to be able to work with at some point.
In most cases you are going to have to reach out and do more research
on google and such because the pool of people inside the channel are
usually focused on the 'core' bits versus the 'general experience'. To
them the core bits are already taking up all their time and it is what
that excited them to work here. General experience areas don't excite
them so they don't care if flash, some special java app, etc isn't
working.
Understood. The hope is that as armv7 becomes more 'mainstream', more
work will be done for it.
I tested shumway and the first video I go to, on
cnn.com supposedly from
NASA, is a proprietary, non-standard video format.
ARGH!! :)
Next I will go to NASA directly, see if the same happens there, and if
so, perhaps NASA will be more responsive than I would expect CNN to be.
Definitely understand we are early in this process. It will take a
while before much of the world is interested in non-android alternatives
to the Intel/MS-Apple world.
Given that I am finally able even to test graphical apps on my
Cubieboards, I get that things are really just starting. The first step
IS to move away from remixes to easier installs and use on a wide
assortment of platforms.