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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: No more FLASH on Linux ?
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:50:44
Message-Id: jiasco$tmm$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: No more FLASH on Linux ? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On 2012-02-25, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
2 > On 24/02/12 17:35, Grant Edwards wrote:
3 >> On 2012-02-24, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
4 >>> On 24/02/12 07:02, pk wrote:
5 >>>> On 2012-02-24 05:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
6 >>>>
7 >>>>> user can watch. Flash on the other hand guarantees web designers that a
8 >>>>> PC user can watch their videos. Having a guarantee that something works
9 >>>>> is a very powerful incentive; you do not abandon something that works.
10 >>>>
11 >>>> It's only guaranteed if flash is installed. HTML5 is pretty much
12 >>>> "guaranteed" with current browsers.
13 >>>
14 >>> Flash has about 95% coverage.
15 >>> That means virtually everyone has it installed.
16 >>
17 >> That's hard to believe. The number of iPads and and iPhones out there
18 >> is getting pretty high, and they don't have flash and never will.
19 >
20 > In PCs, not other machines.
21
22 Why the restriction to PCs? Web designers and website owners don't
23 care about PCs. They care about browsers and eyballs.
24
25 --
26 Grant

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