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Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 11/26/19 11:36
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006, Marian Heddesheimer wrote:
> There are some websites that don't work without flash, but I think
> they are not worth installing the plugin ;-)
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> On the other hand, you will find a lot of nice online games or
> interactive thingies that are done in flash, so I believe it's worth
> installing the plugin if you are not a purely text-based user.
Well, after too many instances of my laptop being brought to an
uncontrollable crawl by commercial web sites which insisted on
dragging their way through a non-optional flash video before one could
get any access to their normal content, I de-installed the flash
plugin.
If there was a way of getting a prompt and being able to say "no
thanks" to the browser when unsolicited flash content was offered, I
might be willing to re-enable it. I haven't found an option like that
yet.
I see that there's currently an argument going on, on a couple of
railway-interest usenet groups including misc.transport.rail.europe,
about an interactive map (in French) at
http://www.ratp.info/orienter/cv/carteparis.php
While one contributor enthusiastically recommends it, another
comments:
| What a total mess!
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| It does show what goes wrong when children are let loose
| without adult supervision.
Readers are, of course, free to form their own opinion on that!
My usual browser (Mozilla), as I say, has had its flash plugin
de-installed, whereas my MSIE simply brings up a security alert
refusing to execute "Active-X controls" from this untrusted site.
Seems to be working in Opera 8.5
cheers
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