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You don't like flash?

• pg 19y ago
  No, I just didn't have Flash 9 installed on the machine I was using. Some of the startups choosing between Javascript and Flash say that this is one of the problems with Flash. If you choose any recent version, some fraction of people won't have it installed, and faced with the interruption of installing it, will just click on Back instead.
  • ivankirigin 19y ago
    Good point. There needs to be a good reason to get mandate an install. Sorta like desktop software.
  • dfranke 19y ago
    and some fraction, like me, won't have any version installed.
    • emfle 19y ago
      Some fraction will also not have JavaScript enabled. That was very popular among nerds back when JavaScript wasn't essential to web browsing. Fortunately, that particular brand of nerd can safely be ignored. They are a tiny, tiny minority who make a lot of noise on websites such as this.
      • pg 19y ago
        Tiny but influential. So I don't think they can always be that safely ignored, especially for startups that hope to begin with techy early adopters.
  • DaniFong 19y ago
    Is there a tipping point where the increased multimedia power of flash overpowers the accessibility of javascript? We're powering though some pretty serious technical hurdles to get what we're working (which has highly graphical components) on running in pure javascript. Seeing what Heroku has done has encouraged us to keep going, but we wonder if picking pure javascript really was the wisest choice.