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Posted by SpaceGirl on 01/19/65 11:35
Onideus Mad Hatter wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 16:26:05 GMT, Jose <teacherjh@aol.nojunk.com>
> wrote:
>
>>> but given the power [flash] delivers to the end user
>> What "power"?? I can't turn it off at the browser level. I can't go to
>> individual frames. I can't skip forward or back. The entire
>> presentation has to load. It leaves me open to advertisers, and fosters
>> theft of attention.
>>
>> All these rants would be moot if I could go to my browser preferences
>> and checkmark "Flash on/off" like I can with animation, video, sound,
>> graphics, java, scripting, and a bunch of other stuff.
>>
>> Flash TAKES POWER AWAY from the user.
>>
>> </rant>
>
> Not to mention it solves browser incompatibility by giving Macromedia
> a monopoly...which isn't so good. The Flash ads are the absolute
> worst, popup blockers can't stop them, they can make it so you can't
> close them, the can include audio with jacked up volume that'll blow
> yer speakers, hitting the "stop" button in your browser has no effect
> on their loading capability, etc, etc.
Blockers can block them. FireFox 1.5 blocks popups triggered from inside
Flash movies fine (it was one of the features added in this version).
The monopoly ends next year - Microsofts Metro (or whatever they call it
now) will directly compete with Adobe's next-gen Flash player. It'll be
interesting to see what happens. Flash player was shipped with Windows;
given MS have their own flash-like technology in next years Windows
Vista (the next major release of Windows, due in... August?), I can't
see them wanting to ship Flash player out-of-the-box. So, unless a user
specifically downloads Flash they wont see it... but they WILL see Metro
pages without ANY download. Also, who knows what will come next with the
Flash player - Adobe no doubt will want to re-engineer it for PDF
support (?), or will they integrate the Flash player into Acrobat? (hope
not!).
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