On 04/06/12 08:19, Graham Anderson pecked at the keyboard and 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.
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