Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (761 mails)

[Graham Anderson <graham@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 06 Apr 2012 15:45:51 C wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 15:35, Graham Anderson <graham@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Friday 06 Apr 2012 15:19:37 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > > Not true. I need flash and I need it in Firefox - not because I need it
> > > personally, but because many of the webs choose to use it. You are wrong
> > > in
> > > punishing users by removing flash from the distro: you have to remove it
> > > from the webs instead. When they stop using it, then we'll also stop
> > > using
> > > it.
> >
> > You need flash because you need it and we should use it because everyone
> > else does. Please stop being a pedant in your replies to any issue you
> > disagree with.
>
> Why don't you stop being a pedant in your replies to any issue you
> disagree with.  You hate Flash, yes.. fine.. but the hard reality is,
> it is still a requirement... for now.  When the balance is tipped to
> move away, then yes it makes sense, but not now.  It's not hard to
> understand that is it?

Hard reality is that flash is a requirement... Are you serious with that 
statement? Outside of animation and video I have never had a requirement for 
flash. Please tell me about your hard flash requirments... I'm all ears.

> By the way, there is a tool for putting in a request like this...
> https://features.opensuse.org/  Open a Fate, let everyone know it's
> there, and put it to a vote.  See what happens.
>
> > > And it is not only youtube. I don't care about it. Even bank sites use
> > > flash for forms and data!
> >
> > Name one single bank in any country that requires flash.
>
> A ten second web search will turn up a long list of bank websites that
> require Flash (in the US... Europe... Middle East...)... some provide
> a "low bandwidth" HTML alternative, but not all... and I found that
> pretty easy.. so can you.

Oh please stop. I see a lot of home pages that might have some spinny flashy 
graphics, but that's always been the case. 

Please name one single bank that requires flash to perform actual _banking_