I think the easiest way to express what we want is to say that there be no payload in the Flash Player download. When we ask people to download Flash to view our sites, we do not want to open the door to unrelated advertising or marketing activity. It makes owners of Flash based sites unwilling and unpaid partners in Macromedia's 3rd party marketing efforts.
More pragmatically, you can see where there might be a problem if we are competing with whatever the payload is.
It is sad to note the passing of this pioneer. But the Mac UI as we know it has very little to do with Jef Raskin.
Raskin didn't "invent the Mac", he merely initiated the project. His original vision for the Mac was more along the lines of his Canon Cat. That all changed when Jobs took the project over and turned the Mac into "Lisa Jr".
I must confess I'm a bit surprised and disappointed at how effective Raskin's "I invented the Mac!" claims have been, even among slashdotters, who really ought to know better. A lot of posters here seem to have uncritically accepted his claims.
Read this for a bit of insight into Raskin's penchant for self promotion: I Invented Burrell
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I think the easiest way to express what we want is to say that there be no payload in the Flash Player download. When we ask people to download Flash to view our sites, we do not want to open the door to unrelated advertising or marketing activity. It makes owners of Flash based sites unwilling and unpaid partners in Macromedia's 3rd party marketing efforts.
More pragmatically, you can see where there might be a problem if we are competing with whatever the payload is.
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It is sad to note the passing of this pioneer. But the Mac UI as we know it has very little to do with Jef Raskin.
Raskin didn't "invent the Mac", he merely initiated the project. His original vision for the Mac was more along the lines of his Canon Cat. That all changed when Jobs took the project over and turned the Mac into "Lisa Jr".
I must confess I'm a bit surprised and disappointed at how effective Raskin's "I invented the Mac!" claims have been, even among slashdotters, who really ought to know better. A lot of posters here seem to have uncritically accepted his claims.
Read this for a bit of insight into Raskin's penchant for self promotion: I Invented Burrell
See also Andy Hertzfeld's take on who "invented the Mac".