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Subject: Re: When will flash support be implemented?
Author: Xavier Roche
Date: 05/21/2002 17:51
 
> There's a site that I really want to grab, but 
unfortunately
> it has a bit of flash that's areally getting in the way.  
I read the FAQ and see that flash isn't supported.
> When will this be implented or is it something that's 
likely never to be supported in the future?
Well, flash is 
- proprietary format
- binary format

The first point is not so important for crawling, but the 
second is. Parsing a binary format, AND modifying it to fit 
the local copy is just a nightmare to do. I don't think 
flash parsing will be implemented soon, and I even don't 
know is this will be done in the future. W3C has 
standardized a much more compatible and pretty vector 
format, SVG, not yet able to implement media (sound, 
interaction) things, but wait and see..
 
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