| From: | paul |
| Date: | 23 Apr 2001 at 10:13:51 |
| Subject: | Common misconception (was Re: Voyager Image Decoders) |
--- In amigactive@y..., Matt Sealey <matt@k...> wrote:
> Hello Andy
>
> > David Gerber jumps on the band wagon, with Amiga Inc bashing in
> > all areas.
> > It's ther in black and white on the V3 portal. This is three
> > days after he throws a paddy over some article about flash on
> > amiga that doesn't mention Voyager. How childish.
Very true!
There's 2 things that annoys me off a about the plugin. a) Olivier
Debon (the author of the unix lib) only gets a small mention in the
docs (whereas it's 99% his work). b) the lib is GPL, so where's the
plugin source??
> That's because it's INCREDIBLY short-sighted of a site like that to
> shrug off the hard work he put into that plugin. A site
> saying "wow, I wish someone would make a better flash, it's a shame
> only IBrowse and this lame standalone thing works" when V has had
> Flash for some years now had better go for an eye test.
This 'lame standalone thing' is much older than the Voyager plugin!
IBrowse would have had a shockwave plugin 2 years ago if the plugin
API was released (that's assuming it's functional in 2.2...).
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