Re: What is playing videos in web browsers?

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Martin Steigerwald <Martin@lichtvoll.de> wrote:

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.

people don't like knowing that their neighbor might have the pawn_me() feature that they don't. if adobe would've stopped messing around with pdf at 4 or 5 and just made security updates, do you know how much time and effort (and data loss) would've been saved?

i'm not saying this is another 'leave well enough alone' situation - it's obviously a business decision - however i don't think it's a bad decision.

now, if oracle were to say the same thing about, say java, i'd go hide in a cave for a few years.