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Posted by SpaceGirl on 11/20/85 11:35
Onideus Mad Hatter wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 17:21:05 +0000, SpaceGirl
> <nothespacegirlspam@subhuman.net> wrote:
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>> 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).
>
> ...that's not actually what I meant.
>
>> 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.
>
> ...only if they're using Windows though...Windows Vista at
> that...pretty small portion of the net.populous. It'll take them
> close to a half decade just to get the numbers up to current level of
> XP users.
>
Yeah, true. I meant more that it'll push Adobe into being a little more
creative with the technology they have acquired - if they just sit
around without some decent innovation in the authoring tools the likes
of Microsoft Sparkle could end up mopping the floor with them in the
long term. It'll be a while until a significant number of users have
even upgraded to Flash 8, let alone 8.5 or Metro.
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