Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: Haas
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 13:49:39 -0500
References: <200012071652.IAA22144@riverside.haddockseyes.com>

I already have the flash plugin for Netscaoe, and am routinely able to view
Flash web sites, but not the ernst haas site.

Dan C.

At 09:49 AM 08-12-00 -0700, Jeff S wrote:
>Brian Reid wrote:
>[snip]
>> The Ernst Haas web site uses a communication method that is not part of
>> the accepted intercommunication standard, but whose creator (the
>> method's creator, not the Haas site's creator) paid Microsoft a fee to
>> be compatible with it. Then it (the Haas site) bungled the negotiation
>> for nonstandard protocols. The Haas people either didn't know about
>> this standards stuff, or didn't care.
>
>I can't view this site using 4.0R12 of the Flash plug-in for Linux,
>which is the one and only Linux plug-in that Macromedia offers.
>Fortunately, the site's author, one K Brandon Bell at design-o-matic.com
>(design@design-o-matic.com) was kind enough to leave contact info in the
>page's source code, so I emailed him about the situation and asked for a
>workaround (if anything useful comes of this, I'll post the results). I
>stopped short of suggesting that thrifty Linux-using Leica-owning
>photographers have oodles of cash in need of an outlet, in lieu of
>Microsoft licensing and upgrade fees ;-)
>
>Jeff Segawa
>NO ARCHIVE
>
>

In reply to: Message from Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> (Re: [Leica] Re: Haas)