Re: Shockwave on Linux

Thier is also a patition at http://www.PetitionOnline.com/linuxswp/ or you can
emeil macromedia directly from the shockwave page.

Quoting "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>:

> On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Kurt Granroth wrote:
>
> > > Shockwave is the only reason I still have a Windows box (3 kids +
> > > Nickjr.com/CartoonNetwork.com/etc...)
> >
> > Same here. I went the CrossOver route for Shockwave at first but
> discovered
> > that Macromedia Flash (plain Flash) wouldn't work, then. In my case,
> I could
> > get EITHER Flash OR Shockwave to work but not both. So I stuck with
> Flash
> > and installed Windows as a dual-boot option for those times when my
> kid wants
> > to do Shockwave games (or CD based games).
>
> I wonder if we should organize some letter campaign or website to
> request
> certain websites to use open standards.
>
> Maybe DHTML and Javascript or SVG could be used instead.
>
> Some interesting links:
> http://www.carto.net/papers/svg/comparison_flash_svg/
> http://digitalcraft.com.au/svg/blurbs/01/blurb001.aspx
> http://digital-web.com/articles/svg_the_new_flash/
> (There are probably some up-to-date documents too.)
>
> This reminded me that my oldest son used to use pbskids.orgs that had
> Flash, then later it switched to shockwave and then switched back to
> regular flash again (if I recall correctly).
>
> Jeremy C. Reed
>

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