Re: flash plugin


Subject: Re: flash plugin
From: Hollis R Blanchard (hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 06 2001 - 00:57:00 MST


On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Jonathan Bertsch wrote:

> > You don't. Netscape on PPC Linux doesn't support plugins. Mozilla and
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > Konqueror are another matter.
>
> Why then would there be a rpm package flash-0.4.3-4.ppc.rpm, that
> installes npflash.so in the netscape plugin directory, and is described
> as an unoffical flash plugin for netscape?

Because *some* Linux Netscapes can handle it. Swift Flash was clearly not
written exclusively for us; it just happens to compile.

> Or is it for mozilla or something else?

It is also true that mozilla, konqueror, etc tend to search netscape's default
plugin directory for usable plugins.

-Hollis



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