On Sunday 25 May 2008 13:13, John Andersen wrote:
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The problem with all these things is that they tend to mess up pages, and some sites won't work at all till you remember they are installed and allow the site. Then you get all of the crappy flash animations contending for resources.
I agree as far as the various script-blocking approaches, but Flashblock seems not to suffer from these problems. I've never seen it mess up page layout, 'cause the placeholder with the "play now" icon / button that it substitutes always matches the size of the flash animation itself. Even when they're pretty small, it works well.
I think someone has to hack Flash itself to have it load and then go dead, until you click each specific animation.
Flash isn't open-source, is it? I suppose it's not inconceivable that Adobe could be convinced to add such an option, but I think it's pretty unlikely. Every commercial Flash author would howl their disapproval, and they're the ones paying for Flash authoring software, much of it from Adobe themselves.
I still have several machines on which I refuse to install flash for this very reason.
I can see having a class of machine for which it was banned, but for a general-use machine on which you're going to browse the web extensively, it would be very limiting to be completely without Flash.
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