| From: | Matt Sealey |
| Date: | 23 Apr 2001 at 11:46:02 |
| Subject: | Re: Common misconception (was Re: Voyager Image Decoders) |
Hello paul@lagernet.clara.co.uk
On 23-Apr-01, you wrote:
> --- 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??
GPL schmePL. Zapek has an agreement with Olivier. As for "99%
of his work", I think you'll find that it's been ported and modified
so much to work on an Amiga and inside the browser (although
the plugin is quite capable of being standalone) that there are
enough changes to make it 99% Zapek's work.
It's like using nails you bought from Do-it-all to fix together
a chest of drawers you made yourself - Do-it-all COULD ask
that you credit them since you're holding it all together while
the glue dries and makes it ultra-sturdy. But they don't,
because there is more to a chest of drawers than the nails
that tack the panels together.
>> 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!
The Voyager plugin is both more capable AND embedded into a browser,
exactly what the article wished for. They practically shit on the entire
Amiga "community" for not producing such a product, and literally
shit on Vapor by not noticing that they HAD.
How do you research and write an article on using Flash in Amiga
browsers, and COMPLETELY MISS the browser that has Flash in it
as standard?
> 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...).
What "plugin API"? I didn't think there was one.. certainly nobody ever
said anything of one.
Thanks
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