We all more or less hate Adobe's Flash technology for being an immense resource hog and a closed technology. To make matters worse, Flash is horribly overused in places where it shouldn't be used. Still, it's a technology that an operating system really must support in order to be declared usable by modern standards, since several popular websites rely on Flash to work. Haiku is now on the list of operating systems with Flash support.
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WTF? An operating system provides support for the applications that run on it. There are a number of operating systems that support programs that process flash files.
*feeds the trolls*
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Exactly, all of them 
If you didn't get my hint I'll make it very obvious: http://www.fsdaily.com/
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Actually, the true problem is that flash support is something that webmasters expect nowadays.
I feel that other formats are worse/more evil. Realplayer was more evil than flash, or imagine if ActiveX had really gained widespread usage on the web as Microsoft originally intended, or think of all those radio stations which offer their content only in WMA or RealAudio...
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First, that looks like it was a lot of work to get working. Well done.
Personally, I have been abale to avoid having to use any site that requires Flash to work.
YouTube in particular, I use the Firefox media plugins to point out the direct location of the .FLV files and download them to my machine to play using VLC, and also lets me play them off-line. (This is very useful on days that the internet access seems to be running a little slow).
Still if this does help my get access to CrunchyRoll it will be worth it to me.
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It’s nice to see the headway that Haiku is making I tried the latest Senryu release and I have to say I like what I see so far. I am looking forward to being able to install it on a machine as drivers mature. I already have a BeOS and Zeta machines that I use all the time.
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I should know this, but I don't: Does this require gcc4-built Haiku currently?
I'm guessing it does based on some previous discussions about Boost, etc., but then I'm not sure...
Looking through the notes, looks like 20+ package dependencies ported in order to build gnash? damn... go on a diet or something.
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You're referring to this: http://www.bebits.com/app/1214
It was released by The General Coffee Company Film Productions who obtained a license from Adobe to redistribute a port of Flash Player for BeOS. I'm guessing the license to redistribute actually cost them some money, not to mention the effort spent to port Flash Player in the first place.
I'm not even sure that Adobe licenses these types of projects any longer, and if they do, I'm not sure there's a single person/company interested in paying the necessary license fees to port Flash Player to Haiku.
I have to imagine the original ported code is gone and/or useless at this point.