[Gnash-dev] Re: Nokia maemo-developers list flash woes

[Martin Guy]

Sorry, I was lazy. Here are the relevant sections:

2006/11/20, Tommi Komulainen <address@hidden>:
> On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 18:26 +0000, ext Simon Moore wrote:
> > I don't suppose there is an updated flashplayer anywhere? 7 or better
> > (or source code to compile one).  All I can find is pre-compiled .SO
> > for x86 Linux (7 and 9beta).
> >
> > On that note are there any plans to update Opera in future OS
> > releases? - I checked with Opera and they say only Nokia can release
> > updates to Opera on Nokia 770 (i.e. you can't buy an upgrade).
>
> Unfortunately we do not generally discuss future products or product
> features in the public, sorry. The exception being components developed
> openly.

So there!

2006/11/21, Simon Moore <address@hidden>:
> Having real issues with Opera crashing (just closes itself)
> particularly with Flash movies - which makes it a nightmare to
> develop serious web apps for it (doesn't support everything we need
> for good AJAX either!).
>
> Not quite sure how to diagnose what causes the problem it seems
> random, even occurs on trivial web pages.
>
> Do others have closing/crashing browser issues too?
>
> It amazes me a web tablet can be released with such a dated buggy
> (proprietary) web browser, a dated flash player and no admitted plans
> to offer upgrades to either (as far as I can make out the browser and
> flash player are still the same from IT2005).
>
> Which means the Nokia 770 is really no more than a toy and can't be
> used seriously by businesses wanting a cheap mobile tablet to access
> their corporate web applications (a rapidly expanding market,
> demonstrated by things like the blackberry).

Which just underlines the need for Gnash.

2006/11/21, Simon Moore <address@hidden>:
> At 14:08 20/11/2006, Martin Guy wrote:
> >
> >A new alpha release of Gnash, the free flash player, was released two
> >days ago, with mozilla/firefox and konqueror and opera plugins and a
> >stand-alone player too. It's not complete yet and has bugs, but can
> >play a lot of flash content. No videos yet...
> >
> >It just needs someone to compile it for Maemo.
> >
> >    M
>
> Thanks for that I will give it a go, although I don't hold out much
> hope of it being good enough for what I am doing.

2006/11/21, Martin Guy <address@hidden>:
> The gnash plugin runs as a separate process, so it should not take the
> browser out if it dies.

  M