Monday, July 10, 2006

Flash Frustrations -- 9:19 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

AARRGH! I ran into another site today (for DiMarzio guitar pickups) that requires Flash 8 to view. You might say, "No problem, Adobe just released Flash player 9!" Well, that's great if you are running Win32 or OSX. There's even a beta for OSX on Intel. We Linux users are stuck with a Flash 7.0. It is a performance hog and the audio/video sync is horrific. Back at Christmas time it was announced that instead of a Flash 8 player for Linux, they would go skipping merrily to Flash 8.5. Fair enough. Except now we find out that Flash 8.5 was rebranded Flash 9. A beta will hopefully be released sometime. The official release is "early 2007." Gah! I eagerly look forward to the beta because it couldn't suck any more than the current Flash 7 player does.

Thankfully, there's a Flash on Linux blog called Penguin.SWF to keep folks updated. I'm adding that one to my bookmarks.

The Master comments: Even though I mainly run Windows, I personally just exit Flash-required websites at the speed of light. I've got better things to do than wait for that crap to load, even on broadband. It takes a lot to make me tolerate Flash.

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