[gentoo-user] Re: No more FLASH on Linux ?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2012-02-25, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
> On 25/02/12 16:48, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2012-02-25, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de>  wrote:
>>> On 24/02/12 17:35, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>>> On 2012-02-24, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de>   wrote:
>>>>> On 24/02/12 07:02, pk wrote:
>>>>>> On 2012-02-24 05:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> user can watch. Flash on the other hand guarantees web designers that a
>>>>>>> PC user can watch their videos. Having a guarantee that something works
>>>>>>> is a very powerful incentive; you do not abandon something that works.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's only guaranteed if flash is installed. HTML5 is pretty much
>>>>>> "guaranteed" with current browsers.
>>>>>
>>>>> Flash has about 95% coverage.
>>>>> That means virtually everyone has it installed.
>>>>
>>>> That's hard to believe.  The number of iPads and and iPhones out there
>>>> is getting pretty high, and they don't have flash and never will.
>>>
>>> In PCs, not other machines.
>>
>> Why the restriction to PCs?  Web designers and website owners don't
>> care about PCs.  They care about browsers and eyballs.
>
> PC users have browsers.  95% of those browsers have Flash.

But your original statement was about "everyone".  "Everyone" isn't
limited to PCs.  It includes iPads and iPods and iPhones.  There are
10's of millions of those out there, and they don't have flash.

> I think this is pretty easy to understand.  Perhaps it's a language
> barrier and I have trouble expressing myself clearly?

I guess to me "everyone" is a more inclusive term.

-- 
Grant