I despise Flash. It's a security vulnerability and a resource hog. Having said that, at this time, it is not realistic to stop supporting Flash. Even Adobe and Google will continue supporting Flash for a while. I think you saw this article; http://www.unixmen.com/bye-bye-flash-for-linux/ or something like it. But even this is a few years off. Dropping Flash would be premature. On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 08:32 +0200, Bruno Friedmann wrote:
On Friday 06 April 2012 08.11:52 Graham Anderson wrote:
List,
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.
Cheers the noo, Graham
Politically, and by philosophy I would say yes to that. But on this topic, we should be the last to do that.
Once all distribution around have drop Adobe Flash plugin, then yes remove it.
Unfortunately, a big number of users, need this infamous plugin to work. And again, no luck to have a free alternative.
In a few years ~2015/2016 html5/css3 will have replace it at 98% in popular website and perhaps 50% of application developed with flash will have change their technology.
From what I've read, Adobe doesn't continue themselves to maintain flash under Linux and give that to Google, who want it inside Chrome.
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