On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:25 AM, dos386 <dos...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > > There is an assortment of web content that _requires_ flash >> > Isn't the Google document viewer among them ? AFAIK >> It is not. Look stuff up. > > I did. Last time I checked it pressured me to enable JS, when it > got JS, it asked for Flash ... this was the EOD for me.
Er. *what* asked for Flash? (That wasn't what I meant by look stuff up.) Google products, including GMail and Google Docs use DHTML and *lots and lots* of JavaScript. The stuff you are talking about, like rendering common attachment types in your browser, is JS powered. (It works on mobile devices that don't *have* flash.) It you aren't running a relatively current browser supporting a current version of JavaScript, you will not have a good experience, because many things simply won't work. I use Firefox (actually, Aurora, which will become the next Firefox release version.) In Aurora, I run NoScript, which blocks scripting activity unless the site is in a user maintained whitelist. Mozilla also implements the plugin_helper executable, which runs as a child process of the browser, and implements a sandbox in which plugins can run. The idea is that a crashing plugin won't take the browser with it, and Adobe Flash is a worst offender. Flash (and plugins in general) are increasingly deprecated. Current browser development direction is "Plugins are bad. The user should be able to do everything without requiring them." And Adobe is curtailing flash. Development of flash for mobile has been ended, in good part because many mobile devices simply don't support it. (Apple refused to support flash.) Flash will still be supported on the desktop, but I don't expect a lot of development. Adobe has a tool in alpha intended to convert flash to HTML5, and will be going in that direction in future efforts. Avoid JS and flash if you prefer, but be aware your reasons for doing so may not be valid. ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
