Windows 8’s Flash whitelist goes black, turns on Flash almost everywhere

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Post by shawndumas » Tue, Mar 12, 2013, 2:48 AM UTC

Windows 8’s Flash whitelist goes black, turns on Flash almost everywhere
arstechnica.com

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Post by ghshephard » Tue, Mar 12, 2013, 3:29 AM UTC

Probably the saddest news I've heard all day. This gives web/application/browser developers yet another excuse not to move HTML standards forward to capture the flash functionality.

I was honestly hoping that Microsoft would have put a stake in the ground regarding flash, and not carried it into their RT platform at the very least.

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 12, 2013, 3:31 AM UTC

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Post by camus » Tue, Mar 12, 2013, 3:36 AM UTC

Great news , i can go back developping real apps with ASWING and not bother with sh*tty javascript anymore. Who cares if it doesnt work on ipad... i'll give the ipad folks a tuned down experience, that's all.

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Post by vxNsr » Tue, Mar 12, 2013, 3:38 AM UTC

I guess this was inevitable, flash is too prevalent to completely block from a device that is being marketed as a laptop and it's not fair to selectively whitelist only some websites, so this was gonna happen eventually.

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Post by camus » Tue, Mar 12, 2013, 3:39 AM UTC

ghshephard wrote: post #2

Probably the saddest news I've heard all day. This gives web/application/browser developers yet another excuse not to move HTML standards forward to capture the flash functionality. I was honestly hoping that Microsoft would have put a stake in the ground regarding flash, and not carried it into their RT platform at the very least.

read the effen post : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2013/03/11/flash-in-windo... Adobe added substancial improvements to the flash player and it will be embedded directly in Internet explorer , like Chrome does.

    For Windows 8, we worked with Adobe to include 
    a version of Flash that is optimized for touch
    , performance, security, reliability, and battery life.

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Post by Ensorceled » Tue, Mar 12, 2013, 4:14 AM UTC

camus wrote: post #6

ghshephard wrote: post #2

Probably the saddest news I've heard all day. This gives web/application/browser developers yet another excuse not to move HTML standards forward to capture the flash functionality. I was honestly hoping that Microsoft would have put a stake in the ground regarding flash, and not carried it into their RT platform at the very least.

read the effen post : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2013/03/11/flash-in-windo... Adobe added substancial improvements to the flash player and it will be embedded directly in Internet explorer , like Chrome does. For Windows 8, we worked with Adobe to include a version of Flash that is optimized for touch , performance, security, reliability, and battery life.

Did you reply to the right comment? This is seems to completely miss the point they were making ...

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Post by melling » Tue, Mar 12, 2013, 4:16 AM UTC

ghshephard wrote: post #2

Probably the saddest news I've heard all day. This gives web/application/browser developers yet another excuse not to move HTML standards forward to capture the flash functionality. I was honestly hoping that Microsoft would have put a stake in the ground regarding flash, and not carried it into their RT platform at the very least.

Not so sure about that. I think iOS and Google have over 90% market share in mobile.

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Post by randomfool » Tue, Mar 12, 2013, 4:35 AM UTC

Another effect of Sinofsky's departure from Microsoft.

This was the topic of a very heated debate internally 4 years ago, allowing the whitelist itself was a massive cave-in by Sinofsky who had set a fairly hard line against all plugins.

I'm hoping all of the jaded Windows decision makers who so adamantly wanted to ban Flash have been sufficiently spanked.

That said, I do wonder how well Flash will work on 7" tablets or even phones. Flash waved the white flag long ago on Android and Microsoft most likely will not support Flash across their entire OS line.

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Post by eridius » Tue, Mar 12, 2013, 4:37 AM UTC

camus wrote: post #6

ghshephard wrote: post #2

Probably the saddest news I've heard all day. This gives web/application/browser developers yet another excuse not to move HTML standards forward to capture the flash functionality. I was honestly hoping that Microsoft would have put a stake in the ground regarding flash, and not carried it into their RT platform at the very least.

read the effen post : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2013/03/11/flash-in-windo... Adobe added substancial improvements to the flash player and it will be embedded directly in Internet explorer , like Chrome does. For Windows 8, we worked with Adobe to include a version of Flash that is optimized for touch , performance, security, reliability, and battery life.

Adobe promised that a well-performing Flash on mobile devices would be coming any day now, for several years. It never materialized. Forgive me if I don't believe that they've finally solved it for Windows 8 tablets.