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Six Months Without Adobe Flash, and I Feel Fine

Posted by timothy on from the alternatives-emerge-in-a-wait-no dept.

Reader hessian six months ago de-installed the Adobe Flash player on all of his browsers, probably a prudent move in light of various recent vulnerabilities. "This provoked some shock and incredulity from others. After all, Flash has been an essential content interpreter for over a decade. It filled the gap between an underdeveloped JavaScript and the need for media content like animation, video and so on." But it turns out that life sans Flash can still be worth living. Are there things you rely on that make Flash hard to give up?

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  1. Kids by MightyYar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Kids sites, educational or otherwise. All seem to use flash. IIRC, Khan Academy as well. If you have kids, you "need" Flash.

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    1. Re:Kids by rs79 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      The older you get the more you appreciate your children. What makes sense in your 20s may not make as much sense in your 70s and 80s.

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    2. Re:Kids by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 4, Insightful

      If you did not have kids your life would be radically different.

      If his parents didn't have kids, his life would be even more radically different!

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  2. Re:HTML5 on YouTube? by eksith · · Score: 4, Insightful

    All new videos, I think, get encoded into HTML5 friendly formats. Older videos may still not be.

    HTML5 A/V could be a fantastic alternative, if only people would settle on a universal codec. Google is still firmly on WebM, while Opera and Firefox is all over Theora/Vorbis and Ogg and, of course, IE 9+ still natively supports MP4 only in H.264, I think. And Safari does QuickTime too.

    Right now, the only way anyone publishing video will get away with only an HTML5 video option is if they encode to different formats, different resolutions and still provide a Flash fallback for older/incompatible browsers. Quite a mess.

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  3. Re:Not Flash, but Silverlight by greg1104 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Question: What's the only thing worse than Flash?

    You mean besides Java applets, right?