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Gnash, Lightspark, and Shumway

Gnash, Lightspark, and Shumway

Posted Nov 22, 2012 7:30 UTC (Thu) by Seegras (subscriber, #20463)
Parent article: Gnash, Lightspark, and Shumway

It's quite clear where this Shumway has to go: Onto the (proxy- ?)server, and into a standalone converter. So everyone can fix their websites (read: convert their horrible flasgh to html). And if they can't do it, the ISP can fix it in the webserver. And if the ISP can't do it, the other end can fix it in a proxy..


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Gnash, Lightspark, and Shumway

Posted Nov 22, 2012 10:55 UTC (Thu) by gidoca (subscriber, #62438) [Link]

I'd rather my ISP did not try to "fix" the websites I visit. :)

Gnash, Lightspark, and Shumway

Posted Nov 22, 2012 11:33 UTC (Thu) by michaeljt (subscriber, #39183) [Link]

> I'd rather my ISP did not try to "fix" the websites I visit. :)

What about a layer even further up then? Straight in the website serving the Flash content, so that they can serve HTML5 directly?

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Posted Nov 24, 2012 15:18 UTC (Sat) by tkreagan (subscriber, #4548) [Link]

Actually, that is kind of brilliant. Wouldn't it be easier as a one-time compile though? And doesn't Adobe make a tool for that?

It seems like this solves a problem for orphaned sites more than for sites which are being actively maintained.

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