Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > >