Re: Off Topic - Open source flash support not looking too hopeless?
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:49:01 +0200
Joe Hart <j.hart@orange.nl> wrote:
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> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On 04/09/07 22:17, Ananda Samaddar wrote:
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> >> think of this? I personally find it shocking that a proprietary
> >> software product has become a de facto web standard. Surely a
> >
> > Shocked? Really? What planet are you from?
> >
>
> Uh, excuse me, is this at all relevant:
>
> A proprietary OS has become the de facto PC standard. I mean what could
> you possibly expect? It's called capitalism at it's finest. Don't use
> quality to push your product, use brute force.
>
> Oh wait, did Flash do that?
>
> I have to say I find the web a much better place without it. Much of
> the annoying advertising disappears if you remove flash. OK, you miss
> out on some of the funny videos, but why waste the time watching them in
> the first place? You could be reading a nice technical manual.
>
> What bothers me about the modern web is not flash, it is all the sites
> that don't know how to format the screen properly, and force my browser
> to the resolution that they want rather than the resolution that I want.
>
> Joe
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I see your point, the reason I am shocked is that Flash is not a web standard as such verified by the Web Consortium but has become a de facto standard as people rush to put stupid animations and graphics on their websites. I agree with the Captalism comment to. The reason I use Debian is almost exclusively for ideological reasons. I am on the side of RMS and the FSF in general and Debian is not a commercially produced operating system. The only sad thing is having to use the proprietary ATI drivers and ipw3945. I am not even bothered about 3d acceleration but I couldn't get even the free Radeon 2d driver to work with my laptop....
regards,
Ananda Samaddar
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