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When all browsers disable Flash, a ton of old artistic content will become unaccessible. I'm thinking specifically about Homestuck animations and minigames, but other people will have their own favorites. Is there a good transition plan?
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The final act of HTML5 delusion - it becomes "ready" because we say it's "ready". It's just someone forgot to ask Flash (game) developers' opinion. Not that it matters, right?
You really think the opinion of game developers should matter in a discussion about how to make browsers reasonably secure for people to use without getting their hosts compromised? Because I don't. Anger towards browser developers or HTML5 is misplaced; you should be angry with Adobe for the fact that Flash is buggy, insecure, and closed-source.
I agree, which is why I wish browser vendors would block WebGL by default.
I'm not holding my breath though, because the reality is that market demand from people like game developers (or at least, perceived demand) is what is driving the addition of so many complex new APIs to the web.
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The final act of HTML5 delusion - it becomes "ready" because we say it's "ready". It's just someone forgot to ask Flash (game) developers' opinion. Not that it matters, right?
I know HTML5 doesn't have all of Flash features, but as a user, I'm glad that I won't see random pages using flash without need.
If you think unwanted annoyances only come from Flash, you're mistaken.
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> 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?
Copy to clipboard, apparently. (Github project pages have a flash application to handle this)
Mark from Mozilla here. To be clear, by "blocked" Flash we really mean enforced click-to-activate. User choice is always a #1 priority at Mozilla. We regularly block vulnerable plugins. What made this block different was that we did it before Adobe made an update available. Now that Adobe has released an update, it is no longer true that every version of Flash Player is blocked in Firefox. However, we're glad to see…
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What privacy implications are you thinking of? (I have not thought about this before.) And again, a quick Google search shows this [0]. But perhaps you mean a more backwards-compatible solution? [0] - http://stackoverflow.com/a/30810322/1507139
Thanks for that link, I hit this problem a while ago, a program I wrote generates HTML results where I want to cut & paste sections into another file. I couldn't find a way to do so in javascript previously. The parent comment has been deleted, so I don't know what privacy problems they are referring to, however there is a potential security issue in allowing javascript write access to the clipboard. e.g. an evil web…
Mark from Mozilla here. To be clear, by "blocked" Flash we really mean enforced click-to-activate. User choice is always a #1 priority at Mozilla. We regularly block vulnerable plugins. What made this block different was that we did it before Adobe made an update available. Now that Adobe has released an update, it is no longer true that every version of Flash Player is blocked in Firefox. However, we're glad to see…
Some websites' video don't work as well, they have JS or CSS that interfere, or assume that you don't have flash installed, or retaliate as if you are an ad blocker, so I'm glad to see this is becoming more widespread, those problems may be fixed.
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Does anyone know why this is showing up on Github as well? I just saw this banner when I logged in. Why would Github be using Flash? (A quick Google search shows they used to use it for the network graph but it is now Canvas.)
Github uses flash for the 'copy to clipboard' button to copy an http or ssh url to the clipboard.
What developer doesn't know how to copy to clipboard?
Anyone knows if it is technically possible to have the old "copy to clipboard" function without Flash?