From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 17 06:11:59 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E78A01065670 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:11:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx02.qsc.de (mx02.qsc.de [213.148.130.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A682D8FC08 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:11:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-195-117-232.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.117.232]) by mx02.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 698A21DAFC; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:11:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id o5H6Bvrm002615; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:11:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 08:11:56 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Programmer in Training Message-Id: <20100617081156.8441dc67.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20100615154956.cfz6ip454w8gcco4@mail.joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> References: <20100615211740.GA50967@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com> <20100615154956.cfz6ip454w8gcco4@mail.joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: concerning flash under freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 06:12:00 -0000 As much as I am now a no-user of "Flash", allow me the following comments. On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:49:56 -0600, Programmer in Training wrote: > Almost all Internet video > has moved to flash as well (such as all the sermons on sermons.net > which my church uses). That's all within transition. Currently, big video portals are moving to HTML5, often including the wish to also use free and open standards for their videos so they can access a bigger audience. Keeping things in "Flash" is a no-go. A main problem of "Flash" is that is isn't compatible with the upcoming trend to move to portable devices. Only HTML5 and compliant browsers will be present on those platforms, and those who keep their sites in "Flash" will be out of scope soon. HTML5 will be the future; "Flash" already is the past. Soon, it won't be important anymore. Conforming to standards will be the key to all those new platforms that customers are interested in. > Flash is buggy, I'll give you that, but "Don't > install it." is not an option for a lot of people. I had been using "Flash" in the past (on FreeBSD). It was so annoying that I finally completely removed it. It has become *the* choice of "professional web developers" to make their sites unusable and finally unaccessible, as well as a big annoyance of users, primarily due to its sheer overuse for advertising purposes. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...