Flash alternatives
Luke -Jr
luke at dashjr.org
Wed Sep 10 14:45:59 CDT 2008
On Wednesday 10 September 2008 13:47:51 Nathan Cerny wrote:
> That's fine, but there's a distinct difference between loading a "plugin"
> or module designed for the browser and loading a 3rd party app.
The only real difference is that sometimes 3rd party apps use a different
toolkit. But KDE's video players are themselves wrappers around 3rd party
frameworks-- either Kaffeine (Xine-based) or KMPlayer (MPlayer-based).
> I want to see support for streaming media just like browsers support images
> now.
Sure, the Mozilla team wrote their own image library from scratch, but I
suspect most browsers use shared libraries for this.
> I don't want a browser to have to load MPlayer, WMP, Quicktime, Flash, etc.
> THAT is stupid IMO.
Now you're contradicting yourself a bit... WMP is about the closest thing to a
native browser plugin as you can get for Windows.
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