Re: "A Modest Proposal" - was [Re: flash? [OT]]

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 3/15/2016 9:09 AM, deloptes wrote:
> Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> > On 3/15/2016 3:57 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > The BBC isn't going to take a blind bit of notice if Brian and I don't
> > > watch
> > > Happy Valley.  It really isn't going to care.  It has its licence money.
> > >
> > > Even Channel 4, which relies on advertising for its revenue, is totally
> > > indifferent to the fact that Linux users can't watch it on a computer.
> > > Well,
> > > Brian probably can.   But he hasn't let the rest of us into the secret.
> > > [snip]
> >
> > Have any that think flash is inferior actually written a polite
> > letter {preferably the snail mail variety] to a senior executive
> > (President, CEO, COO, etc) of the content provider?
>
> When I was not able to watch the national channel with flash player under
> linux, few days later they wrote back, that the problem was fixed and
> indeed since then it is working fine.
>
> The transition to HTML5 will take years - be patient and pray ;-)
>
> regards

I don't know current statistics, but in the pre-WEB era one 
letter written indicated that 100 or more others had the same 
problem. As to "flash" etc, I've yet to find a site that actually 
needed it to give me relevant content. YMMV ;/