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gnome wrote:How about Flash, though?
html5 will kill flash eventually. i give it 2 yrs max.
HTML5 will kill flash once we all figure out what it actually is.
luckily that's transparent to non-programming users like me. i just open my browser one day and -- poof -- no more flash, everything runs native in the browser. there is a cool html5 test/demo page you can check out if you want.

http://slides.html5rocks.com/#landing-slide
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Rob Lister wrote:
Mentat wrote:
Rob Lister wrote:
gnome wrote:How about Flash, though?
html5 will kill flash eventually. i give it 2 yrs max.
HTML5 will kill flash once we all figure out what it actually is.
luckily that's transparent to non-programming users like me. i just open my browser one day and -- poof -- no more flash, everything runs native in the browser. there is a cool html5 test/demo page you can check out if you want.

http://slides.html5rocks.com/#landing-slide
Some of the stuff I've seen for HTML 5-- that page included-- is pretty awesome.
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Rob Lister wrote:
gnome wrote:How about Flash, though?
html5 will kill flash eventually. i give it 2 yrs max.
:P
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why are you bumping this?
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Rob Lister wrote:why are you bumping this?
We still got Flash, Bubbee. :tater:
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oH. yEA. more persistent than I figured.

Good job Abdul.
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Might as well use this to remind folks never to install Shockwave Player and to remove it if it is installed. Adobe just does not update that thing very often and you can expect unpatched Flash zero-day exploits.
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Flash forever! :Yippeee:
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Once all the porn sites switch, that's when the tide will turn.
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I should point out that my systems haven't run flash since well before February 2016
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Rob Lister wrote:I should point out that my systems haven't run flash since well before February 2016
I get it.

You're just cooler than everybody. :wink:
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Sen. Ron Wyden: Adobe Flash is doomed, why is Uncle Sam still using it?
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You know who wants to get rid of Flash?

DEMOCRATS that's who! :evil:








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Just went flash free. Complete deletion including registry clean up.

That means zero Adobe products on my machine.

All is peachy. :)
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