Gnash help

[Simon Slater]

On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 08:03 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Simon Slater wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 20:18 +1100, Simon Slater wrote:
> >   
> >> 	Merry Christmas All.
> >>
> >> 		An urgent but not life-or-death question.  I went to
> >> http://rolexsydneyhobart.com/yacht_tracker.asp?key=522 to check the race
> >> progress but the yacht tracker downloaded but doesn't run.  Right
> >> clicking shows it is using gnash.  Where do I start looking?
> >>
> >> 	I am using F8, gnash-0.8.2.3.fc8 and firefox 2.0.0.10. The race
> >> finishes on Sunday morning, hence the urgency :).  If someone can point
> >> me in the right direction I'll start chasing it tomorrow.  If someone
> >> could verify that gnash works on this site, that would be a start.  This
> >> site worked with flash for last year's race, so I could always swap over
> >> to that.
> >>
> >> 	Seasons greetings
> >>
> >>     
> > 	Well, some joy during the night.  I refreshed the page late last night
> > and the plot of yachts is showing.  But this morning it has not
> > refreshed itself, the refresh plot button doesn't seem to work, nor do
> > the the zoom, favourites etc seem to work.  Firefox was set to block
> > popups, so have enabled that for this site.  I'll wait till after
> > breakfast and if no response by then I'll refresh the page again.
> >   
> Well...it seems nearly impossible to test this site from Taiwan.  It is
> painfully, painfully slow.  It took nearly 5 minutes to load that page
> in both FF on Linux and IE7 on Vista.  Updates are equally sluggish. 
> Actually, sluggish would be fast compared to that site.
> 
I thought it was just my dial-up connection.

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Hooroo,
Simon
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