[Swfdec] Status of supporting Flash animations

[Pavel Roskin]

On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 01:31 +0100, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> I found such a description of swfdec package in Packman repository:
> 
> > Libswfdec is a library for rendering Flash animations.
> > Currently it handles mostFlash 3 animations and some Flash 4. No interactivity is supported yet.
> 
> Which I belive is very not up to date.

I don't think swfdec developers have any control over descriptions given
by packagers.

>  As far as I know, Swfdec 0.5.5
> comes with fully supported interactivirty, doesn't it? Are there still
> some big issues about that?

Just off the top of my head:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13241
(the animation cycles between "loading" and "loaded")

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13627
(cannot enter text)

> Also second question is, what animations are supported by Swfdec? Can
> we say that we are Flash 7/8/9 comaptible?
> 
> I wish to get answer and forward it to RPM packager so he can update
> info about Swfdec.

I'm not sure the description should include an up-to-date list of
capabilities of the software.  Such list would be hard to maintain.  But
if Packman maintainers want to provide such information, perhaps they
should test the software themselves, or at least rely on the
documentation included with the software.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin