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Re: “Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”

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Post by yev »

yeukhon wrote: post #16
Aardwolf wrote: post #10

The 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.

You need to specify versions range too.

Re: “Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”

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Post by csdreamer7 »

Okvivi wrote: post #46

I built those charts on Google Finance. At the time (10 years ago) there was no better alternative for building interactive charting in browsers. After I left Google Finance I feel that the team has attempted a few times to remove Flash, but I don't know why they didn't succeed. Others on this thread are probably right - finance is not enough of a focus for Google, only so many engineering hours, better spent on othe…

Thankyou for your good work on the charts. Google Finance for a long time has been one of my favorite financial tools. (At least it used to be before the stock screener broke.)

Re: “Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”

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Post by reagan83 »

Okvivi wrote: post #46

I built those charts on Google Finance. At the time (10 years ago) there was no better alternative for building interactive charting in browsers. After I left Google Finance I feel that the team has attempted a few times to remove Flash, but I don't know why they didn't succeed. Others on this thread are probably right - finance is not enough of a focus for Google, only so many engineering hours, better spent on othe…

Thanks for building this 10 years ago. This was my first repo I looked at as a noogler earlier this year because I wanted to understand the effort req’d to replace flash charts. It looked a bit more complex than I was expecting but I still have it as #1 on my backlog for a multi-weekend project.

Re: “Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”

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Post by sitruc »

underyx wrote: post #5

A week or so ago this message appeared on the Portfolio page, I assume the Flash Player requirement will be gone soon: > Google Finance is under renovation. As a part of this process, the Portfolios feature won't be available after mid-November 2017. To keep a copy, download your portfolio.

I was a tad sad seeing that the other day. I have used it for 10 years.. I guess I will just have to use my investment site. Logging in is such a pain just to get a general update.

Re: “Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”

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Post by smileysteve »

cm2187 wrote: post #43
Fiahil wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yahoo Finance

And what strikes me as a finance professional is that I can get live stock prices from the free yahoo finance website, whereas my expensive bloomberg terminal only has 15min delayed stock prices...

Don't say that too loud. Most of the exchanges grant uses of real time quotes for non-finance-professionals only.

Re: “Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”

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Post by anilakar »

wyager wrote: post #29
anilakar wrote: post #27

People 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.

You're thinking of refrigeration cabinets with small separate compressors, just like an average person has at home? Post-eighties refrigeration systems even at small sites are inherently more complex and yes, they have features that make them comparable to industrial systems.

Re: “Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”

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Post by imron »

Okvivi wrote: post #46

I built those charts on Google Finance. At the time (10 years ago) there was no better alternative for building interactive charting in browsers. After I left Google Finance I feel that the team has attempted a few times to remove Flash, but I don't know why they didn't succeed. Others on this thread are probably right - finance is not enough of a focus for Google, only so many engineering hours, better spent on othe…

> something that works well enough.

This will become less and less true over time, especially as Adobe plans to kill the Flash plugin by 2020.

Re: “Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”

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Post by tener »

cm2187 wrote: post #43
Fiahil wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yahoo Finance

And what strikes me as a finance professional is that I can get live stock prices from the free yahoo finance website, whereas my expensive bloomberg terminal only has 15min delayed stock prices...

If you require it surely you can get it if you pay for that?

Re: “Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”

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Post by IBM »

Okvivi wrote: post #46

I built those charts on Google Finance. At the time (10 years ago) there was no better alternative for building interactive charting in browsers. After I left Google Finance I feel that the team has attempted a few times to remove Flash, but I don't know why they didn't succeed. Others on this thread are probably right - finance is not enough of a focus for Google, only so many engineering hours, better spent on othe…

The idea that Google has been spending engineering hours on other parts of Google Finance is ridiculous to me. I don't think there's been an update to it in over 5 years. They seem to be doing something to it finally, because there's a notice at the top of Portfolios saying that feature is being removed.
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