Comments on: Flash Wars: Adobe in the History and Future of Flash http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/05/05/flash-wars-adobe-in-the-history-and-future-of-flash/ Daniel Eran Dilger in San Francisco Fri, 16 May 2008 10:13:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: russ http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/05/05/flash-wars-adobe-in-the-history-and-future-of-flash/#comment-8104 russ Tue, 06 May 2008 19:41:06 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/05/05/flash-wars-adobe-in-the-history-and-future-of-flash/#comment-8104 Yeah, what's done with Flash cookies is an interesting issue. You can access a settings manager by right-clicking a Flash object on a page, but how many people know that? http://www.grc.com/sn/SN-122.htm Generally speaking, Flash is useful for some purposes (though only because better solutions haven't been cross-platform) but more often it's a nuisance. Most people have better things to do with their time than be irked by cheesy ads and doubtless most of those who are technologically informed make use of Flash-blockers. I'd be happy to see it die -- unless it's Silverlight that kills it. Since Microsoft controls that, that would be out of the frying pan and into the fire. Yeah, what’s done with Flash cookies is an interesting issue. You can access a settings manager by right-clicking a Flash object on a page, but how many people know that?

http://www.grc.com/sn/SN-122.htm

Generally speaking, Flash is useful for some purposes (though only because better solutions haven’t been cross-platform) but more often it’s a nuisance. Most people have better things to do with their time than be irked by cheesy ads and doubtless most of those who are technologically informed make use of Flash-blockers.

I’d be happy to see it die — unless it’s Silverlight that kills it. Since Microsoft controls that, that would be out of the frying pan and into the fire.

]]> By: rener http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/05/05/flash-wars-adobe-in-the-history-and-future-of-flash/#comment-8103 rener Tue, 06 May 2008 18:40:23 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/05/05/flash-wars-adobe-in-the-history-and-future-of-flash/#comment-8103 My greatest concern about Flash remains its mysterious and quasi-unethical handling of cookies, which raises significant privacy and security concerns: http://phonedifferent.com/2008/03/flash_redux_their_plugin_your.html My greatest concern about Flash remains its mysterious and quasi-unethical handling of cookies, which raises significant privacy and security concerns:

http://phonedifferent.com/2008/03/flash_redux_their_plugin_your.html

]]> By: danviento http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/05/05/flash-wars-adobe-in-the-history-and-future-of-flash/#comment-8093 danviento Tue, 06 May 2008 03:11:09 +0000 http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/05/05/flash-wars-adobe-in-the-history-and-future-of-flash/#comment-8093 Did we forget about Adobe's continuing folly? Oh wait, that was Java... Still, It seems that both MS and Adobe are getting increasingly desperate when it comes to mobiles. Granted, MS has been using this business model for a while, but they're having to sponsor big events just to get the name out there (Dems Convention), much less have people inform themselves about it. At least one good thing came from Vista's continuing failure- many more people know not to jump on the new MS software bandwagon Did we forget about Adobe’s continuing folly? Oh wait, that was Java… Still, It seems that both MS and Adobe are getting increasingly desperate when it comes to mobiles. Granted, MS has been using this business model for a while, but they’re having to sponsor big events just to get the name out there (Dems Convention), much less have people inform themselves about it.

At least one good thing came from Vista’s continuing failure- many more people know not to jump on the new MS software bandwagon

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