Am 15.07.2015 um 12:57 schrieb Linda Walsh:
Aaron Digulla wrote:
Am 15.07.2015 um 04:09 schrieb Basil Chupin: I suggest to use real news sources ....
I am not disagreeing with what you said, but it *would* make sense.
FLASH=SVG+JAVASCRIPT in a proprietary format.
Somewhat. You can do a lot what Flash can do with HTML5 but not everything. Flash is a kind of pandora's box which can do almost anything which your computer / browser can do (access files on the hard disk, call DLLs, access the clipboard). Things that HTML5 doesn't allow for good reason. So there are things which you can't do with HTML5 but I agree, most sites should be able to convert their Flash into HTML5 ... somehow. The main problem is that you have many, many authoring tools for Flash which are good, stable, easy to use, understood. It's a technology that is 10 years old. HTML5 is brand new, brittle, every browser does it a little bit different, there are subtle bugs, no (good) authoring tools.
From a business perspective, HTML5 is a no-go. Maybe in 10 years, when we have all the tools that we have for Flash now.
Acrobat, I'm sure, is another format on the kill list, as soon as there is a standardized encapsulated doc format suitable for replacing it (there is, sorta -- HTML-email, but everyone has a knee-jerk reaction to it to hate it... but all the things that go into a pdf *container*, could go in email attachments, with the whole doc being a self-enclosed format -- with one "show stopper" (that probably won't take too long to cure) -- encrypted and with the ability to disable a user printing it, or changing it, or perhaps even saving it (if the encryption key expires, it might not let you open the doc).
Not really. PDF (unlike Flash) is a standardized format, well supported. There is also a ton of tools that can process PDF, you can encrypt and secure them, they support JavaScript (so you can create responsive documents but that also opens security risks). At one time, Adobe tried to make PDF into Flash 2.0, adding all kinds of features like forms, interactive graphics, you name it). But PDF/A is a worldwide standard which isn't going away for the next ... well ... 50 years. It's an archive format for long term storage.
Basically, neither goog nor moz have need for flash nor the headaches it brings.
True but the feet of the consumers are making the decision and the feet follow the trough - paranoid content providers like TV stations want Flash so they can make sure you can't steal from them and they couldn't care less how often your computer is hacked.
As for better sources on the above?
* Mozilla blocks all versions of Adobe Flash in Firefox ...www.ghacks.net
* Firefox blocks Flash, and Facebook calls for its death - Jul ... money.cnn.com/2015/07/14/.../flash-firefox-facebook/
* Adobe Updates Flash to 18.0.0.209 After Mozilla Blocks All ... news.softpedia.com
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