From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MjrWv-0000bV-U5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 09:25:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE354E0775; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 09:25:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ABBCE0775 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 09:25:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 319A866CAC for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 09:25:56 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.547 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.547 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.052, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Mh2crQWbf8YN for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 09:25:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2867C66BE7 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 2009 09:25:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MjrWh-0000av-Uk for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:25:43 +0200 Received: from ip68-231-21-207.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.21.207]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:25:43 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-21-207.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:25:43 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Last rites: www-plugins/gnash Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2009 09:25:19 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <4AA175E3.5020909@gentoo.org> <17c6771e0909041341h352ea31ejc09195affddebe08@mail.gmail.com> <4AA17F0B.3030407@gentoo.org> <1252101573.2389.4.camel@genbox> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-231-21-207.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 49abf086-d9d3-4274-ab13-8316137ab368 X-Archives-Hash: f0b3c07ccf59c464c426500c0ec6ce17 Nikos Chantziaras posted on Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:19:12 +0300 as excerpted: > On 09/05/2009 01:24 AM, Robert Bradbury wrote: >> >> Is gnash still under development (as an open source alternative to >> Adobe flash)? TTBOMK [1], gnash is now a GNU sponsored project, one I believe they are=20 actually paying someone to spend some time on, now, after a free flash=20 alternative came up near the top of the priority list on a user poll they= =20 did about three years ago. Yes, gnash is a GNU= =20 project, at least, tho I'm not sure on the paid developer status. The=20 latest release was 0.8.5_beta4, on March 3, this year: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ >> If so, then it would seem to make sense to keep the >> plugin alive. Where does this all go with the evolution towards more >> open media formats (HTML 3.x?). It is my impression currently that a >> consensus could not be agreed upon for a "standard" open >> non-proprietary format for audio/video files. HTML 5.0, and you're impression is reasonably correct. Based on what=20 I've read, they settled on