Paladin of the Pegasos
Posts: 1193 from 2003/2/24
From: Helsinki, Finland
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It *must* be embedded into the browsers window, since that is how most webpages are built. Websites that wants their flash content opened up in a separate window, will do just that. But 99% of the time, it's supposed to be just as embedded in the page as any image ...
What matters more than "how it's supposed to be" is that many pages use flash to do menus (Yes, even simple ones you could do with pure HTML, or small javascript script) and depend on being able to get URL's from the flash file (or user trying to guess which html the links are supposed to load, or using external viewer to check which URL's the flash wants to load, and entering that manually)
Of course it would be possible to modify external swf viewer to send link back to Sputnik.
I'm not trying to defend flash. In fact I just hate it. I'm just trying to tell why it might be better have it "embedded" rather than separate.
Of course the internet would be a LOT better place, if no page used flash at all.
About the plugin interface & GPL problem:
What if someone created a browser, that has a plugin-interface that's 100% compatible to that of Sputnik, but the whole thing would be licenced under GPL. Then everyone just created plugins for that browser instead? (see where I'm getting?)
As a program it wouldn't have to do much, if anything. Maybe just display the pages as non-formatted text or something
Oh, someone could also clone ANR's plugin-interfaces to some simple GPL licenced command-line-only player, and people could port some GPL licenced players to that (We still lack sid and uade, well those are the most important ones)
[ Edited by Jupp3 on 2006/10/6 11:32 ]
