[sldev] [VWR] Flash (Was: What about Dillo)

[Argent Stonecutter]

On 02-Nov-2007, at 12:42, Kamilion wrote:
>> Also, please, for the love of god, do not drag Flash into Second  
>> Life.

> Far, farrrr too late -- SL's preexisting Quicktime support supports
> Flash version 5 displays on media textures. I've got a nice scrolling
> flash clock as my media texture at my workspace parcel:
> http://www.designegg.com/insertmonkey/clock.swf

I can implement that clock in 4 prims with one script, without doing  
any fancy texture carving tricks. Three if I leave off the seconds,  
or get tricky with textures. And it will work anywhere, including on  
my HUD.

If we had prim-face text rendering I could do it in one prim.

Without messing around with a brace of closed-source plugins that  
don't work on Linux, and I wouldn't have to turn on streaming media  
to see it (something I haven't done in months). Given how much  
trouble you have to do to make this work, I don't think that this is  
anything close to what I'd think of as "dragging Flash into second  
life".