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>I prefer the approach being considered by Safari to report that Flash (and other legacy plugins) is not available on the platform even if it is installed Wow,
by retox 10y ago
>I prefer the approach being considered by Safari to report that Flash (and other legacy plugins) is not available on the platform even if it is installed
Wow, what an odd position to take (apple not you)! It seems downright harmful to the user and completely disregards the users own intentions. What next, the browser will redirect all visits to online music stores to the iTunes one?
- cpeterso 10y agoMany websites will fall back to a non-Flash user experience (e.g. HTML5 video) if Flash is not installed. If the website truly requires Flash, they will display a message saying so and the user can then permit the browser to activate (and "decloak") Flash for that website. This feature allows the user to choose whether to activate Flash or not.
- retox 10y agoI had only read the first half of the linked article and what you say is true, the situation isn't as dire as I made out. I would still imagine as a user that if a website told you flash wasn't installed you would think there was an issue with the browser.
- cpeterso 10y agoYes, that may surprise users, but the browser will simultaneously be showing in-browser UI asking the user if they would like to activate Flash for this page. The UI should help users seem the connection between the two messages. Hopefully web developers will fix their websites' user of Flash before Safari makes this change (with macOS Sierra in Q4 2016) and Chrome and Firefox in 2017.