Re: Flash in debian

[Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob@member.fsf.org>]

Hi Paul,

On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:13:34 Paul Wise wrote:
> I say Flash needs to die in a fire.
> 
> If you have upstreams who have Flash components, please spend your
> time working on transitioning them to JavaScript, the new HTML5 tags
> (audio, video, canvas etc) and other new web technologies (like
> WebRTC, WAC, W3C Device APIs). Don't waste one moment on Flash, run
> away as fast as you are able.

Thank you for expressing this in such an eloquent and straightforward manner 
:) I'm with you, wholeheartedly.

By the way, do you think SVG worth attention?

> 
> Of course, everyone is free to work on whatever they want, but I
> strongly suggest working on Flash is a waste of time.

So true.

> If anyone wants to actively work on killing Flash, check out this site:
> 
> http://occupyflash.org/

Thanks for the link.

Cheers,
Dmitry.