Firefox makes click-to-activate Flash the default

Post by sethd » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 2:17 PM UTC

JonAtkinson wrote: post #57

HugoDaniel wrote: post #32

Unfortunately in this case avoiding the problem won't make it go away. Many old sites will stop working (my first site was done in flash) as well as many games that are still heavily played today by millions of people. Also flash IDE provides a good introduction to programming for self-taught kids these days: many of them still do their first code in flash after clicking on "that strange icon next to photoshop". Over…

> We need a real open-source alternative to flash player. We quietly built the alternative to Flash over the last 10 years. It's called the web. A standard document in the web browser can play audio, video, display vector graphics, utilise OpenGL, supports direct drawing via Canvas, and it is deeply scriptable with a mature, open programming language. What else do you need?

Post by edpichler » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 2:22 PM UTC

Post by exodust » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 2:24 PM UTC

rprospero wrote: post #142

exodust wrote: post #105

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That's strange, I found Flash programming very accessible. There's a huge amount of good learning material out there, and plenty of shortcuts and components you can use to do quite complex things. Flash components were really interesting, and made it easier for non-programmers, or designers to manipulate a user-friendly "API" of sorts within Flash. This was very powerful. Hugely underrated and conventionality forgott…

In terms of accessibility, my first two "serious" coding projects in high school were an interactive library map and a Latin flashcard quiz game written in Flash and Perl, respectively. At the end of the projects, I decided to focus my efforts on the more intuitive of the two languages, Perl. Granted, it's just an anecdote, but I wonder what I missed that made others find Flash so accessible.

Post by sethd » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 2:29 PM UTC

kozukumi wrote: post #50

God will Flash just die already. Firefox is my primary browser and I run it without Flash. On the very odd occasion I need it I have IE in protected mode which has Flash built in. If a site does use Flash I will seek an alternative though as I hate it that much. On a side note Firefox without Flash is so much smoother. IMHO it is the fastest and most stable browser when it doesn't have Flash bogging it down.

Post by nitrogen » Tue, Jul 14, 2015, 2:30 PM UTC

Quarrelsome wrote: post #192

untog wrote: post #185

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People in video publishing have had to deal with the iPhone since 2007. This is nothing new.

what, re-implementing their tech on a multitude of different browsers on desktop machines that previously worked fine? I'm just pissed because IMO flash is being removed before the cross platform media objects in html5 have been implemented in full across all the browsers.