Posted by Kevin Scholl on 01/20/68 11:36

Marian Heddesheimer wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 01:26:13 -0800, Bald Purp wrote:
>
>>I never bothered to install any Flash plugin, hoping year after year
>>that it would eventually just go away.
>>
>>Are there any cogent arguments against the use of Flash?
>
>
> You mean for you as a User? Not that I know. As far as I remember,
> there are no serious security issues using the flash plugin (so it's
> much better than having active-X, Java or JavaScript enabled).

Erm, just as an aside, Javascript does not have inherent security issues
in and of itself. It's actually remarkably safe. It's when JS is used to
access active-x controls that the problems typically arise.

> There are some websites that don't work without flash, but I think
> they are not worth installing the plugin ;-)
>
> 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.

Games and the like are the area where I believe Flash really shines.
Elsewhere in the thread, there is some good discussion about poor Flash
vs. poor developers -- the problem there is that most of the time, Flash
is poorly used. Hence, it gets more of a bad name that perhaps it
should, when used in areas that it really need not be used..

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