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Re: Flash update



On Sat, 2 Apr 2016 20:30:29 +0100
Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:

> On Sat 02 Apr 2016 at 06:59:29 +0300, Adam Wilson wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 11:39:29 +0100
> > Anthony Campbell <ac@acampbell.uk> wrote:
> > > 
> > > I know this is an old thread, but I thought it would be worth mentioning
> > > that BBC IPlayer now works without Flash. If you go to the BBC IPlayer
> > > web page it says you can access the programs using HTML5. You just have
> > > to install a cookie to do this. It's still in beta but it works for me,
> > > at least with recent versions of Firefox and Chromium.
> > 
> > Wonderful. So all the kerfuffle about getting Flash to work with DRM
> > in Debian was for nothing after all. Huzzah!
> 
> Flash was talked about but I do not think DRM was ever a factor in the
> discussion. Hence - no kerfluffle.

The kerfuffle turns into a "kerfluffle"- I like it. I was reminiscing about Lisi trying to get flashplugin-nonfree to work with something that smacked of DRM a while back- my memory may escape me.

> A shame really. We could do with one every now and then.

Kerfluffles are fun. We should (! Re: "Should") have more of them.

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