[Wolves] Adobe Flash on Linux really is improving

[Rob Parker]

No, actually Dave got the wrong end of the stick, although he is
partially right, I did actually install 'manually' not from the ubuntu
package. But the point I was trying to make is the latest version of
Adobe Flash combined with Firefox 3 (well really Swiftfox in my case)
finally fixes a number of Linux-specific Flash issue, primarily how the
scroll wheel previously didn't work when cursor was over flash content,
and how previously overlaying HTML menus would render beneath Flash
content. But now these seem to be fixed, for an example of the menus, go
to the steam bbc iplayer sight, start a video, then click on the buttons
on the left. Also right-clicking on Flash now procures a native GTK
menu.
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 20:25 +0000, Kris Douglas wrote:
> 
> 
> On 14/01/2008, Dave Morley <davmor2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>         
>         On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 20:38 +0000, Rob Parker wrote:
>         > I'm using a version of Swiftfox that is basically almost the
>         latest
>         > trunk of Firefox 3, and well as the version of Adobe Flash
>         in the normal
>         > Gutsy 'flashplugin-nonfree', anyways the point is I've
>         recently noticed:
>         > *Right-clicking on Flash content finally gives a 'proper'
>         GTK menu
>         > *Drop=down/overlaying HTML menus now render over Flash
>         content not 
>         > underneath
>         > *The scroll wheel actually scrolls the page when the cursor
>         is over
>         > Flash content
>         > I think the last two points will really make websites that
>         use a mould
>         > of Flash and HTML finally properly accessible under Linux. 
>         > Now all we need is Adobe to GPL Flash player.
>         Install from adobe I think that gutsy broke it somewhere.  If
>         you
>         install from there everything should be fixed again
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> I can't quite tell, was that supposed to be funny? :S
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