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Of course we should dignify the argument: the Flash plug-in is a standard used billions of times a day by millions of people. It's only asinine to pretend it's
by radley 16y ago
Of course we should dignify the argument: the Flash plug-in is a standard used billions of times a day by millions of people.
It's only asinine to pretend it's not a modern standard by reducing it to "just a plug-in" because it's unpopular (and virulently envied?) on this forum.
- Groxx 16y ago"A standard technology" is not the same as "a standard". Flash is not a (public) standard, however standard it may be.
- radley 16y agoI <3 HN.
- tptacek 16y agoWord is a "standard" used billions of times a day by millions of people, too. On a typical IE install, click on a Word doc, it'll pop right up. Obviously, every browser should support Word, too!
- radley 16y agohttp://www.tuaw.com/2007/06/22/iphone-can-read-word-excel-pdf-documents/ http://www.tuaw.com/2007/06/22/iphone-can-read-word-excel-pd... in your case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slippery_slope "A slippery slope argument states that a relatively small first step inevitably leads to a chain of related events culminating in some significant impact, much like an object given a small push over the edge of a slope sliding all the way to the bottom."