[Wylug-help] linux and flash

[Yiannis Gatsoulis]

Shaun Laughey wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 09:22 +0100, Nick R wrote:
>   
>> Last time I investigated using flash (a few years ago), it was a 100%
>> complete no go or provide a non-flash html text alternative.
>>
>> With flash 8 there is an effort towards accessibility, check
>> http://www.adobe.com/resources/accessibility/flash8/ but I have not
>> touched flash for a long time.
>>
>> Cheers, Nick.
>>
>> On 22/05/07, Dave Whiteley <d.l.whiteley at ee.leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
>>     
>>> On Monday 21 May 2007 21:48, Yiannis Gatsoulis wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> a very simple question.... what do people use to develop flash
>>>> applications in linux? Thanks.
>>>>
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>>> A smug answer is that people with the good taste to use linux do not develop
>>> in Flash, however a quick Google points me at
>>> http://osflash.org/linux
>>>
>>>
>>> Is it possible to develop acceptable accessibility in a site using flash?
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>       
>
>
> Yes, accessibility works to an extent in flash. Within flashes own
> limited accessibility definitions. There's a brief discussion on Adobe's
> site.
>
> However many sites I've worked on using flash have used keyboard
> navigation and zoomable text. 
>
> As for searchable - no. 
>
> As for accessible using alternate browsers - no. 
>
> Overall flash is a poor substitute for nice hard text but if you have to
> develop in it then Linux is a perfectly viable development platform as I
> said we found all our best flash was produced via Eclipse with no
> Macromedia flash timeline interface stuff to screw it up.
>
> Shaun Laughey.
>
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Right, so basically source is the force again. Pity in this case.... I 
was thinking more of something like a drag n' drop rapid development 
tool which will allow me to do simple stuff.... in a form of more like 
interactive kind of thing, presentation, multimedia, help, etc.... 
Thanks for the replies.