what happened to linuxflashplugin?

[Da Rock]

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> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:50:40 -0500
> From: chuckr at chuckr.org
> To: jonathan+freebsd-questions at hst.org.za
> CC: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?
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> Jonathan McKeown wrote:
>> On Monday 11 February 2008 22:26, Chuck Robey wrote:
>>> All you folks who are focussing on YouTube are (purposefully?  I don't
>>> know) the fact that with just about half of the entire Web using flash in
>>> one way or antoehr, not using Flash is a huge problem, as anyone who
>>> browses without a flashplayer knows.
>> 
>> Just to provide a counterpoint to this sweeping generalisation, I browse 
>> without a Flash player and it's never caused me any problem at all.
>> 
>> There are a few sites which don't work without Flash. Having checked on a 
>> number of occasions, I've found (and I stress this is a personal opinion) 
>> that heavy use of Flash is a fairly reliable marker of a site I wouldn't be 
>> interested in whatever publishing techniques were used.
>> 
>> It's rather like the old saying in the British advertising industry: only sing 
>> in an ad if you have nothing to say.
>> 
>> How does Flash fit in with accessibility guidelines? In many countries, a 
>> commercial site which doesn't degrade gracefully when viewed with (eg) Lynx 
>> may fall foul of legislation protecting people with disabilities such as 
>> visual impairment.
> 
> You know, there are some folks out there who are still using their old M32
> TTY's, and they can't understand why any folks would need mouses.  Those of
> us who have successfully made the move to the 21st century can tell them,
> but honestly, most of us are very tired of hearing the same hoary old
> excuses why things aren't necessary.  The majority of folks doing browsing
> today aren't impressed that maybe some 3rd world country is unhappy with
> flash sites, they just want their flash sites to work, and ours don't.  Why
> don't they?  Because everytime someone comes up with a workable plan, all
> the real cave-men out there trot out there war-stories, and bore us all to
> death with their memoirs, and endlessly recursive arguments.  Everytime
> they get proven wrong on one item, they just move the clock back a few
> months, grab the previous self-justification, and start the argument all
> back up again.  You can't out-last them.
> 
> I personally tried to fix things, got soundly beaten to death over it (and
> I WILL NOT try that one again, under pain of death, sorry!).  MY flash
> works here and that's all I will worry about.  I can't predict when things
> will finally improve, maybe when enough folks realize they don't have to
> put up with this.
> 
> 
>> 
>> In short, I think ``half of the entire Web using Flash'' may be a bit of an 
>> overstatement even if you count Flash ad banners (which frankly I can do 
>> without), and the small number of Flash-only sites I encounter hasn't caused 
>> me temporary inconvenience, never mind ``a huge problem''.
>> 
>> Jonathan
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That was a right pretty speech there, and I agree with the sentiments of moving forward with technology. However, I disagree that this is merely a case backward compatibility. Are you aware that the w3 consortium has web accessibility drafting committee?

Consider also the facts that I have brought forward that Adobe has singled out OS's that are not allowed to run Flash Player. 

Consider also the fact that most designers simply use flash because they can't design properly and use other more accessible methods to achieve the same thing.

I agree that a fix needs to be found, but this is not a "cave man" mentality, and we're not bringing up old war stories. The fact that this has not been all that successful given the larger number of sites now designed with flash player 9 which has been the number one problem here. If you have a fix I am sure we would all welcome the knowledge and use it- I certainly would. I merely point out (hopefully reaching some web designers and other flash fans) that flash is not the only way to go, and is certainly not preferable.
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