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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 00:59:31
Message-Id: ji9bmg$an3$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: No more FLASH on Linux ? by Grant Edwards
1 On 24/02/12 17:35, Grant Edwards wrote:
2 > On 2012-02-24, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
3 >> On 24/02/12 07:02, pk wrote:
4 >>> On 2012-02-24 05:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
5 >>>
6 >>>> user can watch. Flash on the other hand guarantees web designers that a
7 >>>> PC user can watch their videos. Having a guarantee that something works
8 >>>> is a very powerful incentive; you do not abandon something that works.
9 >>>
10 >>> It's only guaranteed if flash is installed. HTML5 is pretty much
11 >>> "guaranteed" with current browsers.
12 >>
13 >> Flash has about 95% coverage.
14 >> That means virtually everyone has it installed.
15 >
16 > That's hard to believe. The number of iPads and and iPhones out there
17 > is getting pretty high, and they don't have flash and never will.
18
19 In PCs, not other machines.

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