Oscar Trelles

The Right to Flash

Just a couple of days ago I signed the open petition that Amir Dotan (UK), Mushon Zer-Aviv (Israel) and Naim Kamel (Palestinian National Authority) have started. You might remember a discussion over at Mario Klingemann’s blog a while ago, about how right-to-left languages are supported in Flash. Well, that’s what this petition is all about:

“We, Flash users from the Middle East, were very disappointed to find that despite numerous complaints, Macromedia has failed to offer any support for RTL (Right To Left) languages and by doing so continue to exclude an entire community of developers from using its product successfully. While Flash MX revolutionizes the Web, the Middle East is left behind due to Flash’s fundamental defects.”

Please, support and sign this petition, even if you write from left to right.