On 22 Jul 18:04, MJ Ray wrote:
Marcus Harris wrote:
[quoting me, but dishonourably removing the attribution]
Flash is pain and should hopefully go the way of the dodo very soon, if html5 <video> with open formats takes off. BBC are being nudged to use <video> more (I think it's already available on iPlayer for Apple - and a BBC news site redesign is coming soon) and it can't happen soon enough.
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Web functionality that otherwise would require some other client software than the browser - lots of video, access to webcams and stuff is only really available to users on GNU/Linux at this point because we have a Flash player that works, [...]
Most GNU/Linux *platforms* don't have a Flash player that works. Take the i386/ia64 blinkers off and show some solidarity with the full range of systems which would be used if it was a fair fight.
ia64? Really? Are you sure... did that actually have a flash player ever? Do you mean x86-64?
Also, erm, I'm fairly sure that this 'ere phone of mine is arm based... infact, having just opened a term on it and cat'd the /proc/cpuinfo, I'm positive it is. It has a (working) flash player.
Should I take off my arm/x86/x64-64 blinkers?
Flash, for the purposes it has, is available on most consumer grade kit, that's where the masses are.
(I'm not saying that flash is a good thing, in any way shape or form... also, I'd like to point out that *platforms* aren't the same as number of people actually *using* that platform, just because one can run linux on $system doesn't mean that that system is for use as a desktop system, I'd get rather upset if some bugger installed the flash client on my servers after all)