Paul Battley wrote:
2008/11/19 Ian Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Adobe notes that 98 percent of computers have Flash installed, and it is
becoming crucial to have it to enjoy the Internet. That is of course, unless
you own an iPhone.
This is what scares me about Flash. Adobe's gaining a monopoly over
the internet. Being dependent on one company is a practical drawback
as well as an ideological one: there's no Flash for 64-bit Linux, for
example, let alone more obscure platforms, and this is a practical
barrier to the emergence of new technologies.
My thoughts exactly.
The "98% of (desktop!) computers have Flash installed" is a somewhat
self fulfilling prophecy...
Personally, I don't have flash installed on any of my computers based on
the reasoning that pretty much every *real* website worth it's content
won't use flash (the websites which are unusable without flash are often
big corporate minisites - like film websites)
I make do with several things[1] for the likes of youtube, iplayer etc
where the content can be extracted without the use of flash...
I don't want to get locked into dependence on a flash-dependent world
wide web - so I'm not.
Tim
[1] http://www.blog.tdobson.net/node/168
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