[nflug] woohoo flash 9 for Linux

[eric]

Yes. Our biology teacher uses a site that shows cell animation using
shockwave, a minor glitch.

Cyber Source wrote:

> eric wrote:
>
>> there no chance they would port shockwave to linux because of the
>> dependency of active X correct?
>>
>> Cyber Source wrote:
>>
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>>> It came out yesterday, it's still beta but works perfect from what I
>>> see. Here's a link --------->
>>> http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html
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>
> I really haven't paid that much attention to the shockwave issue on
> Linux as I don't hear complaints about it much anymore. I used to hear
> it all the time because clients kids trying to access stuff like
> cartoonnetwork.com were all over shockwave. I would like to think that
> the reason I don't hear much about it is because sites are shying away
> from it as flashplayer gets more and more robust, but that's probably
> wishful thinking. I also have gotten confused in the past as to what
> was shockwave and what was flashplayer, for instance, here is the
> output of about:plugins in my firefox after installing the latest
> flash9 plugin;
> Shockwave Flash
>
>    File name: libflashplayer.so
>    Shockwave Flash 9.0 d55
>
> MIME Type     Description     Suffixes     Enabled
> application/x-shockwave-flash     Shockwave Flash     swf     Yes
> application/futuresplash     FutureSplash Player     spl     Yes
>
>
> See.......
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