Comments on: Adobe are you crazy?!

By: archadict

archadict — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 08:57:26 +0000

finaly my dream comes true, the #1 cause of FF crashes or the worst pice of software ever written will vanish!!!

By: Archenoth

Archenoth — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:00:56 +0000

Yeah, slow response, but I just saw this now…

I believe Adobe is doing this because they are /deprecating/ Flash. From what I see, Adobe doesn’t like people using Flash that much, they don’t get money from it and it’s probably a pain to maintain since it is an old format created for a time when this kind of media was uncommon, and from there, gradually updated to what it is today. Adobe earns their income from their development tools, things like Photoshop and Flash (Which they have created numerous exporters for, like the infamous iOS packager), and they are working on an HTML5 development studio called “Edge”, as you can see here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/

Apparently HTML5 will probably be the main format that Flash would be able to export to later. I think Adobe wants to still create “the best tools to use”, but don’t really want to maintain the format.

I presume that this is a first step. To let Google take over the existing plugin would mean that it would be something Google would have to work with, and not them.

By: plop

plop — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:33:40 +0000

They will release and security support (5 years) flash 11.2 for NPAPI. Seems good enough too me (yeah, I am not a fan), _flash is legacy_, youtube and firefox are (mostly) ready *today* for 4).
6 years from now, flash usage will have decrease because of html5 and iOS, IE10metro (no flash support), android (limited and stuck support) and hopefully gnash/lightspark will be good enough to support legacy stuff.

By: wonder

wonder — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:41:45 +0000

a better link is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729481

By: ianux

ianux — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:39:04 +0000

Point #2 is not going to happen: https://wiki.mozilla.org/NPAPI:Pepper

By: wonder

wonder — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:00:24 +0000

I does have support but if Google doesn’t want to release the plugin as standalone download, I won’t be able to package it like we do now.

By: wonder

wonder — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:59:33 +0000

IMO having a community flash is the wrong approach. We need to decrease the usage of flash in the internet

By: Auguste

Auguste — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:57:12 +0000

seems chromium has pepper support.

http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/pepper-plugin-implementation

By: alk

alk — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:41:17 +0000

5) Increase the quality of lightspark and gnash

By: Jroot

Jroot — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:18:31 +0000

I agree completely. Especially with point #1. I was very upset when this popped up in my RSS reader.