[ubuntu-uk] Shockwave plug in alternative

Tony Travis ajt at rri.sari.ac.uk
Wed Aug 29 21:05:44 BST 2007


Terence Simpson wrote:
> Tony Travis wrote:
>> Matthew Larsen wrote:
>>   
>>> Man, where the heck am I living...
>>>     
>> It's not perfect, but it does exist:
>>
>> 	http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnash
>>[...]
> That's flash, not shockwave.

Hello, Terence.

It's a bit confusing because Gnash impliments:

	MIME Type application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash

Seems Adobe created Shockwave Flash, and 'Shockwave' for the purpose of 
'confusion' marketing and, in my case at least, they succeeded ;-)

	Tony.
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