On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Scott Robbins <scottro(a)nyc.rr.com> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 09:53:09AM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
> Chuck Anderson wrote:
>
>>> I've been running pure 64-bit Fedora and SL5 with no problems that
>>> concerned me: I don't know what, if any, browser plugins work, and
>>> don't really care. I don't like flash!
>>
>
> I just don't like flash. The most popular use for it is ads that animate
> (and while I can turn animated GIFs off, I can't stop flash), flicker
> and generally distract me from what I want to see.
>
> I dislike it less when I'm running adblocker+, but I use so many
> different computers/OSes setting filters becomes a chore.
Yup, 99 percent of the time, it's a waste of resources. Citibank's
citicards site has a problem with Linux and Flash. I wrote them with the
workaround and they just wrote back that they don't support Linux. If I
were having their financial difficulties, I'd have treated it
differently, but oh well.
Remind them that they should be supporting their customers
not supporting some product vendor. It is easy to test for a plugin
and if absent provide useful images.... Flash is cool but way overused.
MS is promoting a new set of tools under the general heading of Silverfish
or something like that. Yet another way to "capture" market by establishing
an exclusionary standard tool set....
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