Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 08:46:16 -0000 From: "Graham Bentley" <admin@cpcnw.co.uk> To: "Polytropon" <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, admin@cpcnw.co.uk Subject: Re: Flash viewer for FBSD Message-ID: <a9bdd460c08aefdfff88721137f44e87.squirrel@webmail.plus.net> In-Reply-To: <20100306044916.ce02523e.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20100305120021.52F79106566B@hub.freebsd.org> <b6c669b044c35b74e4d1d74a493106fb.squirrel@webmail.plus.net> <20100306044916.ce02523e.freebsd@edvax.de>
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> On Fri, 5 Mar 2010 23:02:36 -0000, "Graham Bentley" <admin@cpcnw.co.uk> > wrote: >> >> > It looks very bad for browsing web without flash viewer. >> >> I think it looks great - no ads !!! Hurray !!! > > I may politely add that exactly this is the reason I removed > a working "Flash" support from my system. I rather like to > see empty "plug-in content" boxes instead of being annoyed by > "Flash" stuff that is mainly used for advertising. > > Have you noticed that "Flash" has taken the place of animated > GIFs, adding sound and providing nothing that couldn't be > done using existing standards? I'm sure you have. > > A growing part of today's "web designers" seem to have > accepted "Flash" as a replacement for valid HTML, and > even for invalid HTML. > > Have you ever heared of a modern web browser that forces > you to install, let's say, a plugin for viewing JPG images, > and this plugin is only available for an arbitrary chosen > subset of operating systems, and loaded with patents and > other cripple-stuff? And it forces you to have an up-to-date > computer, of course, with an expensive OS (free OSes are > out of scope already). And all the clever "web designers" > now replace their working sites with JPG - even the text > is given as a JPG image. And it is assumed that you have > the plugin installed. And of course, there's a new version > of the plugin every year. All this just to view a JPG > image. Could you imagine such a stupid situation? It's > so idiotic, but it's the reality. > > That's the situation with "Flash". And as I have experienced > it, I can honestly say that I'm fine without "Flash". I may > review my opinion, if given some reason to do so. > > But as it has already been mentioned, that's a very individual > decision, based upon likes and dislikes. > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > Points very well made. In fact shouldn't we be campaigning against such closed source perversion of our Open Standards Internet, not complaining that one company doesn't make a media content viewer for us? This is exactly why Stallman harks on about freedoms etc it almost feels pathetic; "Please Mr Adobe, we poor FreeBSD users don't have a flash viewer, please make one for us too" bleat bleat The only content I 'miss' is occasional utube vids ; No probs. Download as .flv and play with mplayer.
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