It's bad for me. I use embed to include quicktime examples of some of my
video work on my site. Does flash need embed as well (I guess I should
know...but every time I use flash, my head hurts)? Any artist should be
real concearned, because this signifies the end of the portfolio site,
which is our bread and butter.
I'll be damned before I let M$ tell me what peices of art I can and can't
create and display on my website.
Luckily, I know how to code....maybe I can write a script that will erase
that browser from their machine is they visit the site, given the security
holes in that OS. If I make it, I'll gladly share.
tack
On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Lorin wrote:
> http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20010816.html
>
> Did anyone else read this? I started it, and it seemed like a typical
> anti M$ rant, but then i got to the bottom, and it started to sound very
> bad for lots of people.
>
> Basically, M$ is abandoning the EMBED tag in the new versions of IE, so
> you won't be able to use Quicktime, or Applets, or any other plugins that
> depend on the old Netscape Plugin architecture.
>
> i'm curious as to anyone elses thoughts on this... Keeping in mind that
> this column is by the guy that feels microsoft's security holes are
> intentional, so they can swoop in and develop their own proprietary
> version of TCP/IP
>
> -Lkb
>
>
> ------------ Output from gpg ------------
> gpg: Signature made Fri Aug 17 20:55:25 2001 PDT using DSA key ID C4B96868
> gpg: Good signature from "Lorin Kobashigawa-Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
> gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
> gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
> gpg: Fingerprint: 3A16 B2D7 21F1 3360 7764 C991 E071 7FEB C4B9 6868
>
>
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