[OSM-talk] N00b experiences

[Richard Fairhurst]

On 5 Sep 2006, at 00:07, Christoph Eckert wrote:

> the problem I see with flash is that you depend on a company. On Linux,
> I often have seen flashed pages which forced my machine to 100% CPU
> load. If some day there will be no flash plugin for Linux, I'll be
> lost, and lost are all contributors who work on machines without one of
> the major operating systems.

Potlatch, which I'm developing at the moment, is implemented as a 
fairly antique SWF (currently v6). This means it can be compiled with 
Ming (LGPL) and played with Gnash (GPL). Whether or not Adobe develops 
Flash for Linux, Ming and Gnash will still exist.

No-one on this list would want to see a Flash editor as the only OSM 
editor available. Fortunately we already have some very good editing 
tools - though, like Flash, these do not run on 100% of the computers 
that prospective OSM contributors might own. Adding a Flash editor as a 
further _option_ can only expand our reach.

cheers
Richard