| From: | paul |
| Date: | 23 Apr 2001 at 11:43:47 |
| Subject: | Common misconception (was Re: Voyager Image Decoders) |
--- In amigactive@y..., Matt Sealey <matt@k...> wrote:
> Hello paul@l...
> 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.
Haha! Yeah, right! I know Oliviers code pretty well. It's well
written and would require *no changes* (but the latest versions has
an 'interesting' endian bug... :) - even if you needed to embed it
into a browser (in fact it comes with a NS plugin example).
> 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.
More like buying a pre-built chest and painting it red!
> The Voyager plugin is both more capable AND embedded into a browser,
More capable? How? I agree that it's nice to embed into a browser,
just a shame it's Voyager :-)
> > 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.
Indeed it has. I have some old source code that came with an old beta
IBrowse 2.0 (or 2.1?) but it's changed since.
If you create a plugins directory and put a file there (with an icon,
contains settings) IBrowse at least trys to load it. Under some
circumstances anyway...
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