I haven't had the Flash plugin since 2012 and only a few couple of times I've encountered something I wanted to use which required Flash since when I stopped having Flash. In every case where Flash was required I simply Googled the relevant keywords and found what I was looking for provided by other non-Flash sites.
Google is banning Flash from its display ads
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Re: Google is banning Flash from its display ads
#52I suppose this means dropping it altogether (like from Chrome) can't be too far away. My only regret with that would be that we use flash as a way to allow one-button copy to the clipboard (using this http://zeroclipboard.org/ ). We had tried non-flash solutions, but none of them worked. This sounds like it might work https://clipboardjs.com/ , so I guess I'll be adding a backlog item to look at it.
This is a pretty common use case for Flash. There's a clipboard API of some sort now: http://caniuse.com/#feat=clipboard
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#53One thing HTML5 lacks is the ability to combine all assets into one file. This makes Flash particularly handy for advertisements. Safari almost got there with its .Webarchive format, and Mozilla experimented with a file format but it didn't get anywhere.
WARC, maybe? http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/
WARC has proven to be useful in web archiving contexts, I'd love to see browsers use it for good. http/2 is headed in a quite different direction already.
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#54I haven't had the Flash plugin since 2012 and only a few couple of times I've encountered something I wanted to use which required Flash since when I stopped having Flash. In every case where Flash was required I simply Googled the relevant keywords and found what I was looking for provided by other non-Flash sites.
Twitch is the only thing keeping Flash on my system, and as soon as they make the switch to HTML5 video I'll be uninstalling it completely.
Re: Google is banning Flash from its display ads
#55Surprised to see this in the news now. As an advertiser, we received notice from Google around July of 2015 that our flash ads will soon be disabled. Something like a month or two later the change went into effect.
Re: Google is banning Flash from its display ads
#56I haven't had the Flash plugin since 2012 and only a few couple of times I've encountered something I wanted to use which required Flash since when I stopped having Flash. In every case where Flash was required I simply Googled the relevant keywords and found what I was looking for provided by other non-Flash sites.
Twitch is the only thing keeping Flash on my system, and as soon as they make the switch to HTML5 video I'll be uninstalling it completely.
Twitch has run over HTML5 for the better part of a year (maybe longer).
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Data URLs for large images are horribly space-inefficient.
Once you gzip them they aren't bad.
We've been down the rabbit hole for a while now, and we've decided it's not so bad down here. Now we are browsing for curtains and a good rug to make the place feel more like home.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
Data URLs for large images are horribly space-inefficient.
Data URLs should be ~1.37x the size [0] of the original file (and generally, kept in the same format). Obviously, there are issues of caching, keeping the image loaded in memory, etc, but it shouldn't be all that bad. Esp. when you consider that ads are inefficient for a variety of other reasons. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64#MIME
Right, I miscalculated, Base64 isn't as bad as I thought.