flash for linux

[Joseph Sinclair]

You can download an OLD flash player, sure.  If you're running i386.  Those of us running non-Intel chips are left out in the cold.  Also, the Flash 8 format will not have a Linux player (according to Macromedia), they're only releasing it on Windows and OS/X.
My comment was that the Flash *system* (the authoring environment and server tools) is only supported on Windows and OS/X.  Also, while some Flash players are available for Linux, they are not supported (officially) by Macromedia.
I also noted that it is not easy to view Flash in Linux (true, especially for non-Intel chips and non-RPM distros); none of the distros I've tried have it built-in, and many have considerable difficulty installing it.  On my primary Linux system there is no Flash player available, period, because it is not a 32-bit Intel chip.


Bryan.ONeal at asu.edu wrote:
> Not entirely true, you can download the Linux flash players from macromedia
> and they work great, and their is some support, in that I could not get it to
> install correctly under a restricted profile without installing for the whole
> system in ubuntu and they (Macromedia Support) gave me the link to a very
> simple "How to"  Although they did not write or host the how to.
> 
> As far as SVG I am very eager to learn it, it looks incredibly useful for
> interoperability of diagramming applications as well as an animation
> replacement.  But your rite in saying their isn't much in the way of
> development tools.  But I am sure some will come to heads soon.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> 
> 
>>The Flash system is a proprietary product of Macromedia.  They only support Windows and OS/X, so building Flash sites on Linux is fairly difficult, and Linux users find it ranges from difficult to impossible to view Flash (especially since the new Flash player 8 will not be released on Linux anytime soon).
>> That said, there are a few projects in existence to get a Flash-building solution running on Linux, but all of them (as you may have noticed) are far from complete.
>>
>>Why try to learn Flash at all.  Why not learn the Web standard for flashy, interactive, graphics-intensive websites, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).
>>This standard is already fully as functional as Flash, and the support in various browsers is rapidly approaching completion (90% complete in the next Firefox/Gecko release, same with KHTML (Konqueror and Safari)).
>>SVG is a dialect of XML, so it's fully searchable (Flash is not), and it's easy to make SVG accessible to persons with visual disabilities (just follow a few simple rules), Flash cannot be made accessible.
>>The biggest part of SVG that's missing right now is good support in the development tools for declarative animation and scripted interaction, but that support is expected soon, as the tools mature and the browser support expands.  In the meantime, you can develop SVG without tools (Flash cannot be edited without tools) using a simple text editor.  The Adobe viewer is available for Windows Internet Explorer along with a few other platforms, including some Linux systems.  Better support on Linux is coming with the next Firefox release (as noted above).
>>
>>If you're writing websites, definitely examine the W3C standards for doing so, since a standards-compliant website will be accessible to more people on more platforms for a longer time than a non-compliant site.
>>
>>You should also try to make all sites you create/work on as compliant with the W3C accessibility guidelines as possible, it's simply the Right Thing(r) to do.
>>
>>Some relevant links:
>>W3C                                   http://www.w3.org/
>>Web Standards Project                 http://webstandards.org/
>>Cascading Style Sheets                http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/
>>Scalable Vector Graphics              http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
>>Website Accessibility Initiative      http://www.w3.org/WAI/
>>Web Content Accessibility Guidelines  http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/wcag.php
>>
>>==Joseph++
>>
>>Josh Coffman wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>
>>>  I do side work like websites sometimes, and everyso
>>>often ide possibilty of using flash is there. Since,
>>>I've migrated to linux and ha to learn all sorts of
>>>new stuff, figured maybe I could learn Flash too. I
>>>even found a sourceforge project http://f4l.sf.net.
>>>
>>>Any one ever used it? Can anyone point me in the right
>>>direction to get started with flash in general for
>>>f4l? Or any other suggestions for writing flash on
>>>linux?
>>>
>>>TIA,
>>>-j
>>>
>>>
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