fyi - Slacko 5.3.3 / Nightly 12 - flash won't play a video.

[canbyte]

I downloaded latest Slacko and installed Firefox to avail myself of the copy text/URL addon (must have for research!). I used slickpet to install flash player which plays most videos. However it will not play the fluoridation protest meeting video on the following page:
.http://hamilton.siretechnologies.com/si ... ype=AGENDA

instead I see a message that says to install Microsoft Silverlight

Win XP will find/play the video ok.

Since I've already seen the video, I'm not asking for help, just I thought puppy developers might want to know about the playability issue fwiw.

Also wanted to pass along a heads-up on the following message that came up before I remembered that slickpet already had a flash player I could install.

When unable to play a video, there's a message that suggests to download Adobe flash player, which then goes to the following page/message:

Download Adobe Flash Player
Adobe Flash Player version 11.2.202.236
Your system: Linux 32-bit, Firefox

NOTE: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux.

Address : <http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/>

I can't imagine this is a surprise to puppy/ linux developers but just in case.....

[nooby]

I don't criticize you but your title is very misleading.
You should have SilverLight or MoonLight in that title.
Adobe Flash player AFAIK has nothing to do with SilverLight!

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Adobe will continue to provide security backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux. /quote

But AFAIK that would not help with Microsoft SilverLight.
Linux has MoonLight which is a FOSS? variety of SilverLight.
So maybe it would help to look for how to install that one on Linux?

I hope some clever developer for Puppy come up with a solution for us.