On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 08:11, Graham Anderson
I would like to ask your thoughts on how we use and offer the flash plugin.
Clearly Adobe are no longer willing to support Linux as an OS. Persuant to this I propose we drop the flash plugin option entirely; by this I mean that none of our installation options should suggest flash plugin.
Furthermore, I think that flash plugin should not be offered as an additional repository or installation option.
The problem with that is that a vast portion of the web relies on Flash, and I'm not talking about YouTube here. If we decide to drop Flash altogether, then we had better come up with an alternative for Flash that ensures that websites continue working. Ignoring the big ones like YouTube, there are many other sites that rely on Flash - uTest for example is a 100% Flash based site, and there are loads of others out there that simply will not work without Flash. You can say, I suppose, use Google Chrome for all Flash based websites (they roll in Flash with the browser).... will this work? Is this an acceptable alternative? If yes, then Chrome needs to be in the default install if Flash is dropped... in place of Firefox? What about standalone applications that rely on Flash? How do we deal with those? Are the open source Flash implementations "good enough" to be drop in replacements? Until the web moves beyond Flash, we are in a situation where we need to continue supporting and providing some sort of Flash support. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org