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Any recommendations for a better alternative?
Teletrader Public Webstation http://www.teletrader.com (full disclosure, that’s the company I work for)
That is a nice looking web page!
“Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”
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#32Funny thing is they used to have interactive charts without Flash. But then I've always felt the janitorial staff worked on google.finance. When companies go out of business or merge they stick around in the site for months sometimes. Or ever try the stock screener? What an unsmiling pile of poor. Yet they have the data and the horsepower to do amazing things with it, but since it apparently makes no revenue, its not worth the effort unless the night cleaning folks feel like writing a little code.
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#34People are complaining about Flash? I've got quite a few stories from doing integration work with refrigeration systems. Mind you, most of these systems are meant to be used daily by the staff at ordinary grocery stores. - One vendor requires a leaky JRE 1.5 to run their configuration tool, originally written for Windows CE around 2007. You need to keep it inside a VM and disable automatic Java updates. - A newer sys…
Why the hell do grocery store refrigerators require a web GUI? The most complicated computer in the whole system should maybe be an 8-bit microcontroller. For massive industrial-scale refrigeration and storage, it might also make sense to add, say, a serial port.
Well, for a fleet of refrigerators, it might be nice to have a place to see data from the entire fleet. Power requirements, temperature, failures or failure indicators, etc.
A large supermarket would most likely want something like that. With serial ports, they'd have to design a system themselves, including the boxes to attach to the individual serial ports.
Of course, for a technically skilled individual, a serial port is much preferable.
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#35I saw the flash player alert yesterday and thought my computer was infected by some malware! I can't believe Google doesn't have a chart control to put there.
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#36Google Finance is a dead product walking: Are there any developers actually working on it at all?
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#37Google Finance is a dead product walking: Are there any developers actually working on it at all?
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It's certainly not perfect, but I generally use Morningstar for checking funds and prices.
They still use Flash for some parts (like portfolio x-ray), but it's not the needed for the simpler charts.
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#38They forgot to turn off this service.
Perhaps they will gradually lower its contrast like a bad hn post, until nobody notices it fade away.
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#39It's the typical Google development cycle. Build a great product, don't get enough users, engineers lose interest and boom the product is basically sunset. Years later it is either revived or cancelled outright.
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#40The article title is wrong. The real message is: "Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts." The title is: "Adobe Flash Player is required for charts" I see a chart without flash, it's just not interactive (but a static rendered image)
It should be "Adobe Flash Player is required for charts on finance.google.com on Firefox otherwise static rendered chart image is not renderable either". I tried Firefox on Windows and Chrome on Windows, only FF can't show the static rendered image without first activate Flash.
I'm using Firefox and had no trouble viewing the static chart.