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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 Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      One more reason not to have kids.

    2. Re:Kids by rastos1 · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Khan academy videos are on youtube and work fine if you join HTML5 trial on Youtube.

      Gnash sometimes works, sometimes not.

      Google Streetview, yeah it would be nice if that worked without Flash. There is no reason why it could not. It's just a matter of Google investing money/time/effort to get that working.

      I personally don't use Flash. For years. It certainly is possible to live without it. The smaller amount of ads alone makes that worth.

  2. Two Month without adobe pdf and I feel .. by burni2 · · Score: 5, Informative

    .. fine, because now I use SumatraPDF, small fast no nagware no nagdates .. I feel great!

  3. Re:Streetview by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you enable WebGL on Google Maps, I'm almost certain that the streetview is WebGL too, not flash.