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bug #25866: Wrong information on project homepage

Submitted by:  None
Submitted on:  Sat 14 Mar 2009 07:17:21 PM UTC  
 
Category: documentationSeverity: 2 - Minor
Release: NoneStatus: Fixed
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: Rob Savoye <rsavoye>
Open/Closed: Closed

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Fri 05 Jul 2013 01:30:57 PM UTC, comment #4:

This is actually fixed as the text now reads SWF (not "shockwave")

Sandro Santilli <strk>
Project Member
Wed 30 Mar 2011 11:33:10 PM UTC, comment #3:

Actually Adobe uses "ShockwaveFlash" in many places, so I'm not really sure this is a bug. For example, the mime type is
x-shockwave-flash. Other swf files have the string "P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" embedded in them.

The change from Flash to SWF was because of a nasty letter Adobe sent Canonical about trademark issues. So I was asked to change it by Canonical and didn't consider it a big deal. SWF is the file format, and flash is actually the name of the trademarked creation application.

Rob Savoye <rsavoye>
Project AdministratorIn charge of this item.
Sun 15 Mar 2009 09:06:52 AM UTC, comment #2:

I've always found this a bit odd too. At the very least it should be the other way round: "Gnash is a (shockwave) flash player and plugin for Firefox and Konqueror". Also, as someone went through the entire codebase replacing flash with SWF, we could also do it there (well, I can't, but someone with admin privileges could).

Benjamin Wolsey <bwy>
Project Member
Sun 15 Mar 2009 12:09:33 AM UTC, comment #1:

Gnash plays SWF files, and SWF stands for ShockWave Flash. While it is true that there is another product known as "Shockwave", I think in the sentence you quoted is intended to say that Gnash plays SWF files.

Bastiaan Jacques <bjacques>
Project Member
Sat 14 Mar 2009 07:17:21 PM UTC, original submission:

On the website
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnash/

is the text:
Gnash is a flash (shockwave) player and plugin for Firefox and Konqueror.

But as I heard from some tech-guys:
flash != shockwave, neither compatible, nor a extension
shockwave isn't available for Linux and never was

So the above text, which I copied from the given website, is wrong. But maybe I didn't understand the whole flash/shockwave thing.

Best regards,
Benjamin Schmidt

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    Date Changed By Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced By
    Fri 05 Jul 2013 01:30:57 PM UTCstrkStatusWont Fix=>Fixed
    Fri 05 Jul 2013 12:42:12 PM UTCbjacquesStatusWorks For Me=>Wont Fix
      Open/ClosedOpen=>Closed
    Wed 30 Mar 2011 11:33:10 PM UTCrsavoyeStatusNone=>Works For Me
    Wed 30 Mar 2011 11:25:05 PM UTCbjacquesSeverity3 - Normal=>2 - Minor
      Assigned toNone=>rsavoye

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