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Comparing the scope, history, and benefits of Flash to a fractal compressor is childish. It's posts like this than make HN look like a bunch of techno-babbling
by radley 16y ago
Comparing the scope, history, and benefits of Flash to a fractal compressor is childish. It's posts like this than make HN look like a bunch of techno-babbling trolls.
"Supporting plug-ins" is clearly a well-tested and marketed phrase to divert attention from the real issue: a business blockade. Only the weakest (or most biased) of programmers fall for it.
- pohl 16y agoThat's a lot to digest: childish && (week || biased) && troll? Is this subject really worth that much vitriol? On what basis is a browser author obligated to support any plugin system whatsoever? I don't want an answer as to why Apple must...I want to know why any arbitrary browser vendor, in your world, should not be free to make that product decision. Edit: I submit that if you cannot answer that question, having removed Apple from the equation, that it is not me who is biased.
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- radley 16y agoIt's not your terminology that I found childish & trollish; it was the comparison of Flash to a fractal generator along with an all-too-obvious deviation from the original point, i.e. a straw man* It's not a lack of plugin support that prevents Flash from working on iOS. It's strictly business rules (which was the point of the article). Your first comment makes hay over the former and your second comment dismisses the latter. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawman "A straw man argument is an informal fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position. To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by substituting a superficially similar yet weaker proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting it, without ever having actually refuted the original position."