Quoting Konrad Neuwirth (konrad@mailathome.or.at):
> Ben Collver <collver@peak.org> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 09:42:28AM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote:
> > > On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 09:32:39 -0700, Ben Collver <collver@peak.org> wrote:
> > > > Okay, but I'd like people to develop for open standards such as SVG.
> > > 
> > I wouldn't suggest that it would hurt to port it to BSD.  However, I
> > was being asked to advocate a proprietary standard, and happened to
> > mention a similar standard that is both open and portable.
> 
> It's open and portable, but not similar.  SVG is a vector graphics
> format, Flash is an application environment that just happens to be
> largely used for animations, but that can also natively interface with
> SQL databases. 

I have to say that I've delighted in the plug in for a mac laptop
that lets me KILL FLASH.  Only RARELY is it not for an ad. An
annoying ad like a 4 year old saying "dad, dad, dad, dad, dad, dad,
hey dad, dad" while you wish you could drink yourself into oblivion.

I used to intercept it at the home gateway, but have been using the
laptop at work and don't really want to ensquid the laptop and
selfproxy.

Flash Bad.  Flash Annoying.

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Thanks, I'll stick with open standards.  If I wanted proprietary,
I'd have kept a compuserve account and ignored the Internet (ok, I
used Internet/Bitnet long before CompuServe, but when there were no
ISPs in NY - before Panix was a MacII with a bunch of serial cards,
it's what we had.  And it didn't have Flash and we rejoiced.).