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Posted Aug 30, 2006 6:33 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: Gnash (ZDNet) by rqosa
Parent article: Interview with Mike Melanson, lead engineer on the Linux Flash Player team (ZDNet)
And how many web-sites actually use SMIL ? Yes, it's not a good world where we must parse proprietary .doc files and proprietary .swf files instead of using open formats like ODF, SMIL or SVG. Yet it's the world we live in...
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Gnash
Posted Aug 30, 2006 10:37 UTC (Wed) by rqosa (guest, #24136) [Link]
However, the OpenOffice.org and KOffice projects have made ODF their preferred format and have been promoting ODF extensively. As a result, ODF is gaining adoption. By comparison, the FSF lists Gnash as a "high priority project", and (as far as I know) hasn't been promoting SMIL or other similar formats at all.
Yes, but ...
Posted Aug 31, 2006 5:39 UTC (Thu) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]
If OpenOffice didn't do an excellent job of reading Microsoft formats far fewer people would be interested, since most of us have colleagues who live in that world.Similarly, while Flash has its problems, it has a vast number of users.