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And since when you have to please everybody ? Flash developers are a minority, and they have no power to influence the market. The sooner Adobe abandons the de
by ddalex 11y ago
And since when you have to please everybody ? Flash developers are a minority, and they have no power to influence the market.
The sooner Adobe abandons the dead horse, the better for all of us. Kevin has gone away for years now, and Adobe's force is not based on Flash anymore (disclaimer: I own Adobe stock)
- Quarrelsome 11y agoIts not like html5 has all of the features required to replace flash cross platform. These changes force developers, especially those that work in video publishing to implement a variety of implementations for each device whereas flash gave us one platform that technically works on everything but is now disabled intentionally.
- robalfonso 11y agoFrom the outside looking in, I have to imagine this has been on the industries radar for a while. I mean flash has had some pretty steady hate for a while, coupled with advances with other mechanisms becoming increasingly robust. It may create more work but surely work that was not unexpected.
- timboslice 11y agoI can't wait for HLS support http://www.jwplayer.com/html5/hls/ http://www.jwplayer.com/html5/hls/
- Quarrelsome 11y agothat link is a great demonstration of the problem we're discussing.
- untog 11y agoPeople in video publishing have had to deal with the iPhone since 2007. This is nothing new.
- Quarrelsome 11y agowhat, re-implementing their tech on a multitude of different browsers on desktop machines that previously worked fine? I'm just pissed because IMO flash is being removed before the cross platform media objects in html5 have been implemented in full across all the browsers.
- nitrogen 11y agoI'm just disappointed that browser makers caved to Flash-using media companies demands and added closed-source DRM to the HTML spec. Thank you for demanding such an awful misfeature, Hollywood. Our starving culture will forever be in your DMCA debt.
- mike_hearn 11y agoThe alternative wasn't "no DRM", it was "video distribution is done via apps instead of a browser".
- gluelogic 11y agoFlash isn't being removed by Mozilla. They have just placed a kind of "Are you sure you want to run this?" prompt on flash content.
- bobajeff 11y ago"...whereas flash gave us one platform that technically works on everything..." Unless you count iOS, Android, BSD, Solaris, QNX, Debian etc.