Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?
Am Sonntag, 16. September 2012 schrieb lee:
> Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> writes:
> > On 15/09/12 06:30 PM, lee wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> trying out chromium, I have found that both seamonkey and chromium
> >> are able to play arbitrary videos found on youtube. I used to have
> >>
> > Chrome has built-in Flash - it's called PepperFlash so it does not
> >
> > depend on external libraries,
>
> Interesting, I was considering this possibility. It doesn't explain
> how seamonkey can play flash, unless it has it built in as well.
>
>
> Adobe says on their website: "Flash Player 11.2 is the last supported
> Flash Player version for Linux. Adobe will continue to provide security
> updates."[1]
>
> What's that supposed to mean? Will we soon have to go without flash
> when that version becomes incompatible, unless we use chromium?
Well I think it means exactly what is stated there:
There will be security updates and thats it.
What is to difficult to parse with that sentence?
For any speculation on possibly incompatible changes I would need to ask
my crystal ball.
I bet that Adobe will abandon Flash for the web sooner or later.
Anyway, either it works or it doesn´t. What purpose does it have to worry
now, what will be in maybe a year or two - unless you want to initiate an
online petition?
My take: The sooner it breaks the better. The sooner webpage creater get
rid of flash the better. Only pitfall in this: The Linux desktop user part
of the complete web surfing community is likely still very small.
So the sooner it breaks on Windows and Mac OS X even the better.
I will jump up and down then there is no flash anymore on the web. Unless
for historical purposes in an emulator with a big fat warning that this is
how not to do web content. Ever.
> [1]: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
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