Graham Anderson wrote:
On Friday 06 Apr 2012 14:29:35 Per Jessen wrote:
Graham Anderson wrote:
On Friday 06 Apr 2012 12:44:14 Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote:
I agree that we cannot kill the Flash plugin right now as much as I wanted it to happen. It makes me angry how much Adobe pisses off Linux users and non-Chrome users at the moment as this makes Linux look like a even worse desktop system and especially to you as a "Mozilla guy" this will most likely decrease Firefox and SeaMonkey usage on Linux even more as people have to switch to Chrome if they want proper Flash support.
I really disagrree with this. There should be no pandering to incumbent and deprecated technologies. The sentiment "its bad but we have to put up with it" makes my skin crawl. Flash was only tolerated because it was the easiest way to get a video decoder into the browser. That has changed.
Linux is moving most markets right now, except the desktop, desktop Linux is not in the same league as server, mobile and embeded. There will be nothing to gain from shackeling our desktops to such things as Flash (which everyone including Adobe are leaving behind anyway).
Really, we win _nothing_ by continuing to support flash.
That is no doubt correct, but we might very well _lose_ a lot (of users).
Do you mean in the sense of "no flash will use something else" or "these guys don't support flash, wtf not going to use that?" or something else?
Mostly the first one.
I ask because one of the platforms that users love and rant about doesn't use flash as a matter of its engineering policy.
My son doesn't give a toss about engineering policies :-) - he doesn't know what a distro is either, but if his PC won't play youtube videos and miniclip games, he'll go somewhere else. Probably to Windows. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (12.8°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org