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As you may or may not know. I've been conducting a petition over the
past months to see if there was any support for an official port of the
Macromedia Shockwave Plugin for Netscape. The response to my petition
has been overwhelming and recently there has been rumours on
http://slashdot.org/ about the fact that Macromedia is considering/ or
even is already porting to Linux. At the moment there is no way of
knowing whether this is true or not and so just in case Macromedia still
have any doubts about whether the demand is there for the shockwave port
I've decided now is the best time to present my petition to them. I'll
let you know of any official response of Macromedia via my website:
http://www.linuks.ukpost.com/advocacy/shockwave.html

For those who don't know:
After I started my petition I discovered there was a development of an
unofficial Shockwave plugin (not by Macromedia) - the good thing about
it though is that it is Open Source. I've just been informed that the
latest version (0.4) will be released to the public soon and I have been
sent a copy to try out. Although it isn't perfect it manages to render
Shockwave 3 intensive sites such as http://www.metrofm.co.uk/ to a
reasonable extent so that they can be navigated. With earlier versions
this wasn't easily possible so it offers a vast improvement over
previous versions. Even though this plugin has improved since it's early
days and is a definitely usable  alternative to the official plugin I
still believe official support of the Linux OS by Macromedia is vital
for two reasons:
1. The Linux plugin can be kept up to date with 'enhancements' to the
Shockwave specification
2. There's more chance of the Macromedia authoring tools also being
ported to Linux (if you want them)
The Open Source plugin is available at:
http://perso.club-internet.fr/odebon/flash.html
Please note the latest version 0.4 may not appear for a few days. It's
worth waiting to get that version.
-- 
David Hallowell <linux@cableinet.co.uk>
LinUKs <http://www.linuks.ukpost.com/> The ultimate UK Linux site
Want Shockwave for Linux?? Sign our petition...
http://www.linuks.ukpost.com/advocacy/shockwave.html