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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
By the end of the year, Google Chrome will block virtually all Flash content and make whatever's left click-to-play by default.
In September, Chrome 53 will kill off all background Flash content, which is about 90 per cent of Flash on the web, according to Google.
Then in December, Chrome 55 will use HTML5 for video, animations, games and similar stuff. If there is no HTML5 available and instead just Flash, you'll be asked to explicitly enable the Adobe plugin to view it.
This will pile immense pressure on web developers to use HTML5 and ditch Flash, because Chrome will deliberately stall the plugin's user experience.
It's effectively throwing Flash out into the cold winter's night. There is no more room at the inn. Google says it prefers HTML5 because it's faster to load than Flash and easier on handhelds' batteries. But the elephant in the room is Flash's dreadful security record: it is a screen door that lets the sewage of the internet seep in and infect computers.
Any Soylentils still have Flash installed on their systems? What keeps you from removing it?
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday August 12 2016, @01:38PM
I'll fess up and admit to writing a business application in Flex (Flash's last dying attempt to occupy the nice of Java Webstart, apparently not realizing that Webstart was already dead as a doorknob). HTML5 just wasn't ready when I wrote it, and developing a desktop application was out of the question (as a practical matter). Rambling nonsense follows.
Problem is, the only way I can get time I can dedicate to finishing up its replacement is if Accounting has a client they can soak for my time. They literally would rather have me yakking on Soylent all day than do something “programming” without a client to soak. I don't think they understand a lot… but this is the same Accounting department that is 100% cisfemale who vehemently opposed charity for a common women's health problem, tried to fuck up my estimates with bad data, got me shitcanned by the online pharmacy I'd been using for 14 some odd years, and got me Feminist Objectioned from local medical care. They weren't directly responsible, just indirectly responsible. I don't think they'd realized what they were doing to me by trying to soak that client. Or maybe they did. One of them was part of the feminist brigade that determined I hated women and didn't think women should be allowed to program because a proprietary piece of shit some other department bought had problems that the vendor (not me!) refused to even acknowledge! Typical cisfemale case of having the privilege of being unaware of one's privilege.
Should I post that? I'll post that. Sure it's off topic, but maybe we can implement that +1/-1 rambling nonsense mod somebody suggested. And yes, I've decided just to say “feminist” for the same reasons we expect peaceful Muslims to be more vocal against their extremists and take more steps to put a stop to Islamic terrorism.
Needless to say, that Flash app isn't getting replaced any time soon. I'll have moved on to better things like fast food or lawn care by the time they realize how stupid, arrogant, and abusive they were.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday August 12 2016, @02:40PM
Have you considered moving somewhere else where everyone you interact with aren't assholes?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Friday August 12 2016, @05:21PM
Probably easier said than done.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday August 12 2016, @05:27PM
Never said it would be, but when the mental anguish is so extreme it's all tsubasa can talk about maybe it's worth a shot.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2, Interesting) by cmdrklarg on Friday August 12 2016, @06:29PM
The problem with your suggestion is that no matter where you go there are always more assholes, and sometimes they are bigger than the ones you are trying to escape.
I myself would rather have to deal with an ignorant asshole than a malicious asshole.
The world is full of kings and queens who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12 2016, @09:25PM
And some times you cannot move to avoid the assholes, because wherever you go, there you are. If this happens often enough, it behooves one to examine hypotheses: Either the universe is full of assholes, or, you are the common element, and you seems to be making people into assholes by your mere presence. Which of these is more likely?