Macromedia Updates Flash Player For Linux

[Kent Pribbernow]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://news.com.com/Macromedia+buffs+up+Linux+Flash+Player/2100-7345_3-5221636.html?tag=nefd.top' target='_blank'>http://news.com.com/Macromedia+buffs+up+Linux+Flash+Player/2100-7345_3-5221636.html?tag=nefd.top</a><br /><br /></div>"Flash Player 7 for Linux is available for download from Macromedia and will be included in Linux distributions from major providers such a Novell, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems and Turbolinux. Other enhancements in version 7 include performance tweaks that allow Flash applications to load significantly faster and support for uniform Web development using cascading style sheets. <br /><br />Macromedia said its Flash Player is installed on 98 percent of Internet-connected desktops as well as a growing number of handheld devices. Flash provides a graphical user interface that can be embedded within Web sites and used to link with databases. When used properly, it can make online shopping sites quicker and easier to use than sites with plain HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) interfaces."<br /><br />Cool. If you're a Linux user, download the update and tell us what you think. :)

[foldedspace]

How about a Flash player for Palms other than Sony? PPC's are my weapon of choice, but the Tungsten C is a nice piece of kit. Not that the Flash player would be enough to make me switch, though. The mono output(!) of the C makes no sense at all....Palm must be run by a buncha angry old businessmen.

[James Fee]

When used properly, it can make online shopping sites quicker and easier to use than sites with plain HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) interfaces."
[beginrant]When used improperly, flash is completely annoying and is worse than pop-up ads since you can't get rid of them unless you uninstall flash. ESPN is now using flash for their ads much like CNet does and it ends up covering the whole page. How intrusive is that. Just leave the banners and when one catches my eye, I'll click on it. Cover the screen like a pop-up ad and I'll ignore it.[/endrant]

[Steve]

Flash renders a lot of websites useless. sites like http://www.le-chateau.com/ are so flash heavy that a lot of people get so badly confused, they will close the window.

That's sooo off topic though :)

I'm glad macromedia does that for linux. As a linux user who appreciates appropriate use of flash, I am pretty happy about this. I'll try to leave a note about it when I boot up linux next.