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It would be much better to try to convince people to enable a flash blocker. It'll make using flash explicit and improve security for a lot of people. Aping Oc
by lucian1900 15y ago
It would be much better to try to convince people to enable a flash blocker. It'll make using flash explicit and improve security for a lot of people.
Aping Occupy is really stupid, though.
- bunderbunder 15y agoSites are frequently designed to detect the presence of Flash, and degrade gracefully if it is absent. Flash blockers create usability problems for most users by defeating those measures. Flash blockers are designed to create a placeholder for the Flash content. That is often defeated by Flash content that doesn't really correspond to any specific rectangle on the page. Together, these two situations mean that Flash blockers unceremoniously torpedo the principle of least surprise. Don't get me wrong, I love my Flash blocker. But it's a gadget for geeks, not a solution for the Web at large.