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About the petition

The Right to Flash is the initiative of Amir Dotan (London, UK), Mushon Zer-Aviv (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Naim Kamel (Ramallah, Palestine). It was launched in July 2003 in order to make sure the middle east, doesn’t get left behind the development of the internet, believing it to be a powerful tool for overcoming differences and for new methods of communication. In the case of Flash both Palestinian users and Israeli users are united by the similarity of our languages, both unfortunately left behind by Macromedia’s Flash MX technology.

We believe The Right to Flash is universal and shouldn’t be restricted by cultures or languages. We look forward to start speaking Flash in our own languages and to fully use its potential to make the web all that it can be.


Examples of the current faults and poor results:

Hebrew Related: Ex_1 | Ex_2 | Ex_3 | Ex_4 | Ex_5 | Ex_6
Arabic Related: Ex_1 | Ex_2 | Ex_3 | Ex_4 | Ex_5

Other Right-to-Left languages used on the Web include Urdu, Amharic, Yiddish and Persian.
If you know of any other Right-to-Left languages used online please let us know.

            

Contact:
amir(at)flash-ivri.com

Related links:
Which languages are written right-to-left (RTL)?
The Bidirectional Algorithm
Hebrew MX - Quasimondo - Mario Klingemann's Flash Blog
Hebrew MX Tools - Quasimondo - Mario Klingemann's Flash Blog
Macromedia Accessibility - all websites, created equal.



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