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Adobe Founders On Flash and Internet Standards
An anonymous reader points out an 18-month-old interview with the founders of Adobe (and creators of PostScript) Charles Geschke and John Warnock, and highlights three interesting quotes from the book Masterminds of Programming that seem very timely now. "'It is so frustrating that this many years later we're still in an environment where someone says if you really want this to work you have to use Firefox. The whole point of the universality of the Web would be to not have those kind of distinctions, but we're still living with them. It's always fascinating to see how long it takes for certain pieces of historical antiquity to die away. The more you put them in the browsers you've codified them as eternal, and that's stupid. ... With Flash what we're trying to do is both beef it up and make it robust enough so that at least you can get one language that's platform-independent and will move from platform to platform without hitting you every time you turn around with different semantics. ... You can see why, to a certain extent, Apple and Microsoft view that as a challenge because they would like you to buy into their implementation of how the seamless integration with the Web goes. What we're saying is it really shouldn't matter. That cloud ought to be accessible by anybody's computer and through any sort of information sitting out on the Web."
399 more times.Then do a funny little dance and keel over to fail your astronavigation exam.
"I'm sorry, if you really want to read this post you have to use Flash."
Apple prohibits any kind of code interpreter, not just Adobe's.
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read the title of the story as: "Adobe Flounders On Flash and Internet Standards"
Read the GP's comment. He is not saying that it will be 'better' next year, he is clearly stating that it will be 'butter'. I cannot understand that you didn't bread that correctly.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
I don't know why but for some strange reason every time someone talks about Flash the Queen Song Flash jumps into my head.
Flash - ah - saviour of the universe Flash - ah - it'll save ev'ry one of us Flash - ah - it's a miracle Flash - ah - king of the impossible It's for ev'ry one of us Stands for ev'ry one of us It'll save with a mighty hand Ev'ry man ev'ry woman ev'ry child With a mighty flash Flash - ah Flash - ah - it'll save ev'ry one of usMy ism, it's full of beliefs.
Use firefox and use the flashblock addon.