What settings did you use at the adobe site? It wasn't very clear to
me what they all meant! And my first visit ended up having the
settings program go nuts and I had to kill it.
In the bigger picture, Javascript (including the flash libraries) is
part of the evolution of the browser being the desktop. Apparently
Javascript/Flash is the way the mic and camera are made available
today. I *want* the mic and camera to be included, but would like it
to be innocuous. This may not be possible.
The W3C seems to have a lot of web standards, and the Javascript world
is standardized under ECMA (European Computer Manufacturers
Association). Couldn't they together specify the way the mic/camera
are managed?
In the even larger picture: it seems to me that all languages, not
just Javascript, should have a web subset that falls under sandbox or
similar standardization. Why not allow, for example, Python etc to be
valid browser languages. And I don't mean as simple applet-like
extensions/plugins. But something that can manage the DOM itself,
that is literally integrated into the browser itself. And thus also
able to deal with the mic/camera.
Chrome is said to be looking into this.
-- Owen
On Sep 15, 2009, at 7:00 AM, Robert Holmes wrote:
Flash has it's own version of cookies that not many people know
about and are hard to delete. See http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/you-deleted-your-cookies-think-again/
If you want to delete them or stop them getting dropped on your
computer you actually need to use a control panel on the Adobe site: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager02.html#118539
-- Robert
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