On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 09:10, Graham Anderson
That "vast" portion of the web that relies on flash also usually relies on IE6 or IE7, all of these three techs are in decline and none of them should be indirectly supported by openSUSE.
Ummm.. what? What does IE have to do with openSUSE? We don't provide IE with openSUSE, but we DO provide Flash. Try to keep on topic.
100% flash sites should live or die on their own sword. Any argument to support them in the context of openSUSE is fundamentally flawed.
Sorry, I need Flash for my job. The website that I get contract work from is 100% Flash. Did I decide to make it Flash? No, they did. I can use the site with openSUSE and I can do my job (which actually requires Linux for about 75% of the work anyway)... take away Flash, and I can no longer do my job, or I use Windows.... Windows is not an option.
Any site that is 100% flash should rely on their own proprietary tech. Flash is not an open standard and actionscript is maintained outside of accepable norms.
openSUSE cannot dictate the actions of anyone else.
What about standalone applications that rely on Flash? How do we deal with those?
Let them die.
Right... you may be able to do that, but they rest of us live in the real world where despite Adobe dropping Flash support 5 years from now, it is still VERY much an integral part of the IT world (as much as you or the rest of us may hate it).
Are the open source Flash implementations "good enough" to be drop in replacements?
No, they are terrible and flash/actionscript are not open standards.
You can go hang out with Mr. Stallman, the rest of us have to live in the real world where open standards are nice idealistic goal that we can try to work towards, but not practical. Dropping Flash in the future... sure once enough of the tech has moved away to alternatives, but now... not a good idea at all. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org