On 2017-03-26 15:11, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 25/03/17 05:41 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
So you ask them! Most certainly not. So your suggestion that I do was hypocrital at best.
No, I did not ask. It was you who asked "why is anybody still using Flash?" and I answered. I'm not interested in asking the sites, I more or less know the answer, and they will not answer to me.
BTDT and Carlos is correct. They ignore you.
Some places, it seems, the use of flash is too deeply involved in their business process. Carlos, as well as my clients, are an example of that on the receiving end because its like that for some producers.
While the change to HTLM5 is easy for the consumers because of the way browsers have been developed, it seems it is not so easy for content providers.
Then there's archival material.
I'm sure that Youtube has great tools for production & conversion, and I'm sure that converting from the format produced by phonecams and consumer grade DSLR to HTML5 is easy for them and they have to deal with such volume as to make it worth while. As for <strike>holdouts</strike> places like Brighttalk and CNet, who knows.
Indeed. For instance, one water provider (you know, the water that arrive via pipes to the houses) that I need to use has a web page that is made entirely with Flash (at least, a year ago). So, if I want to see the receipts/invoices, I have to use flash and I have absolutely no choice, except migrate the house to another council far away. And houses in Spain, made of armoured concrete can not be migrated like wooden houses in the USA. Then I see banks I have to deal with also using Flash. Most often it is cosmetics, but on one it was the login. So what, migrate accounts? Well, that's not often viable. I would rather have to use Windows instead, or Android. I can't be that intransigent on Flash. I have in the past tried to reason with banks regarding some computer issue. It is impossible. These are very above decisions. So I will not argue with them over flash. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" (Minas Tirith))