Re: Macromedia Flash Ads

I believe that Macromedia (and Adobe, who have a similar problem with SVG)
are waiting for browser manufacturers to improve the plugin API so they can
do this. The problem is that there is no standard way of plugging
browser-type objects together. There was some effort to address this at W3C
through the component extension taskforce. The principle is that "plugins"
should be able to have other plugins. This is particularly valuable as an
approach for accessibility - rather than the model in IE where you specify
the plugin to handle some media object, you could specify the type of media
objecct and people coul use the plugin they prefer - you could have an HTML
plugin running inside flash, with a mathML plugin running inside that, if
that was how the content appeared.

In the meantime people occasionally implement the functionality within flash
or SVG but it is still the same as the mess at the browser level.

And on a Mac almost every browser is tabbed, and you can plugin and use a
three-button mouse (under X you can actually copy and paste with the mouse
alone using left and midle buttons). Otherwise alt-click (for middle) or
ctrl-click (for right) are the normal method.

cheers

Chaals

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Geoff Deering wrote:

>
>I use a number of browsers, and I'll often use my least favourite browser if
>I can turn Flash ads off.  But sometimes I do want to follow an ad.  What is
>really annoying is there seems to be no facility in Flash to facilitate
>middle mouse button opening windows in the background (sorry Mac users), or
>the normal right click to allow the user to open in another window, which in
>some tabbed based browsers creates and action to just open it in another
>background tab.  There seems no other option but to left click and have it
>open in another window, which is not following the spirit of accessibility.
>
>What is Macromedia doing to address this problem, if anything?
>
>Geoff Deering
>
>

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