[ANN] F-ab is now available for downloading

[Klaus Major]

Hi Jiro,

> Herrn Klaus,

Actually it is "Herr Klaus" or even better and complete "Guten Tag,  
Herr Klaus" :-)

>> Could you please tell us a bit more about how you did this?
>> I am sure most of the listmembers would love to know a bit about the
>> technical background.
>>
>> And most of us are VERY interested in displaying Flash content inside
>> Rev without altBrowser and/or Quicktime! ;-)
>
> The Flash Player.plugin, which is located in /Library/Internet Plug- 
> Ins/, is directly loaded in the external. WebKit is not used in F- 
> ab. Flash movies are displayed in the custom control. Other main  
> functions of F-ab are written in Java including HTTP connection and  
> DB connection. F-ab is using Derby(http://db.apache.org/derby/) as  
> the internal database.

Aha!
So the Flash browser-plugin is used directly. Very interesting!

This raises the possibility of a Rev "play Flash" external :-)
Or even the same thing WITHOUT an external.

>>> We have a plan to port this product to Windows.
>>
>> Maybe this can be done by using the wonderful "altBrowser" plugin  
>> from Altuit?
>>  http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/altBrowserCover/default.htm
>
> Thanks for your information. altBrowser is great!

Glad i could help.

> Best regards,
> Jiro Harada

Sayonara

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de