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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: No more FLASH on Linux ?
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:31:32
Message-Id: jiaukf$a35$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: No more FLASH on Linux ? by Grant Edwards
1 On 25/02/12 16:48, Grant Edwards wrote:
2 > On 2012-02-25, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
3 >> On 24/02/12 17:35, Grant Edwards wrote:
4 >>> On 2012-02-24, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
5 >>>> On 24/02/12 07:02, pk wrote:
6 >>>>> On 2012-02-24 05:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
7 >>>>>
8 >>>>>> user can watch. Flash on the other hand guarantees web designers that a
9 >>>>>> PC user can watch their videos. Having a guarantee that something works
10 >>>>>> is a very powerful incentive; you do not abandon something that works.
11 >>>>>
12 >>>>> It's only guaranteed if flash is installed. HTML5 is pretty much
13 >>>>> "guaranteed" with current browsers.
14 >>>>
15 >>>> Flash has about 95% coverage.
16 >>>> That means virtually everyone has it installed.
17 >>>
18 >>> That's hard to believe. The number of iPads and and iPhones out there
19 >>> is getting pretty high, and they don't have flash and never will.
20 >>
21 >> In PCs, not other machines.
22 >
23 > Why the restriction to PCs? Web designers and website owners don't
24 > care about PCs. They care about browsers and eyballs.
25
26 PC users have browsers. 95% of those browsers have Flash.
27
28 I think this is pretty easy to understand. Perhaps it's a language
29 barrier and I have trouble expressing myself clearly?

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[gentoo-user] Re: No more FLASH on Linux ? Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>