Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:49:01 +0200
Joe Hart <j.hart@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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Ron Johnson wrote:
On 04/09/07 22:17, Ananda Samaddar wrote:
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think of this? I personally find it shocking that a proprietary
software product has become a de facto web standard. Surely a

Shocked? Really? What planet are you from?


Uh, excuse me, is this at all relevant:

A proprietary OS has become the de facto PC standard. I mean what could
you possibly expect? It's called capitalism at it's finest. Don't use
quality to push your product, use brute force.

Oh wait, did Flash do that?

I have to say I find the web a much better place without it. Much of
the annoying advertising disappears if you remove flash. OK, you miss
out on some of the funny videos, but why waste the time watching them in
the first place? You could be reading a nice technical manual.

What bothers me about the modern web is not flash, it is all the sites
that don't know how to format the screen properly, and force my browser
to the resolution that they want rather than the resolution that I want.

Joe
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I see your point, the reason I am shocked is that Flash is not a web standard as such verified by the Web Consortium but has become a de facto standard as people rush to put stupid animations and graphics on their websites. I agree with the Captalism comment to. The reason I use Debian is almost exclusively for ideological reasons. I am on the side of RMS and the FSF in general and Debian is not a commercially produced operating system. The only sad thing is having to use the proprietary ATI drivers and ipw3945. I am not even bothered about 3d acceleration but I couldn't get even the free Radeon 2d driver to work with my laptop....


regards,

Ananda Samaddar


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