Opera OLPC edition

[Håkon Wium Lie]

Also sprach Rob Savoye:

 > > Opera has made a special OLPC edition. The most important difference,
 > > compared to the normal Opera for Linux, is the default skin.
 > 
 > By any chance does this Opera port support the NSAPI used by Mozilla
 > plugins ? If so, it'd be trivial to add Flash support using Gnash.

Yes, Opera supports the "netscape" plugin API. You can put plugins here:

  /usr/lib/opera/plugins

Also, we look for plugins here:

  /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

For example, you can put Adobe's latest Flash plugin for Linux:

  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6904912 Jan 25 13:26 libflashplayer.so

It works, but the file size is less than inviting. Could you point me
to a gnash plugin?

Ideally, though, I'd like to keep Flash content away from OLPC
machines. Flash is a proprietary format and we should rather find open
alternatives. For example, you can add sound to web pages through a
JavaScript API. Try this page in Opera on the OLPC:

  http://people.opera.com/howcome/2006/canvasdemo/canvascape/shoot.html

Press 'space' and 'b' and listen.

-h&kon
              Håkon Wium Lie                          CTO °þe®ª
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