Installing Adobe Flash 10.1 the Adobe way is all kinds of broken
How to Install Adobe Flash V10.1 with VoiceOver– The Mac-cessibility Network – News [Lioncourt.com] Last week, Adobe released version 10.1 of their Flash player plugin for both the Mac and Windows operating systems, which included a large number of security fixes. Much to the frustration of visually impaired users, the installer application, which had previously [...]
Flash stinks, but the alternatives are still half-baked?
ongoing by Tim Bray · HTML5 and the Web Bray is so centered on this issue. I need to dial down my own rhetoric on the subject. He says clearly what takes me far too many words to describe vis my feelings on Flash. What’s not to like, then? Well, the user experience, which in [...]
Jobs outlines case against Flash on mobile, now we wait for reciprocal hand-wringing
Thoughts on Flash From Jobs missive on Flash today: Perhaps Adobe should focus more on creating great HTML5 tools for the future, and less on criticizing Apple for leaving the past behind. Of course, Adobe is going to make a great product for authoring in HTML5 and so on, because a great-big-non-trivial-part-of-the-business exists to do [...]
ClickToFlash – A browser plugin for those who hate flash
A quick post and a tip today, and a letter to my friend Tony, a Flash guy. Dear Tony, I think about you often when I work on the web. It starts out fondly, and quickly turns to rage when my browser crashes thanks to over-abundance of Flash advertising which destroys my favorite sites. I [...]
Engadget on the HTC Hero
I haven’t seen the Hero, and likely won’t get my hands on it for some time now. But judging by the videos in Joshua Topolsky’s review that hit today, I’m not in a hurry. And neither, as it would appear, is Flash: So Flash is kind of a big deal on new smartphones. The iPhone [...]
Meeting at 2Plural/evive, and the Curse of Flash Websites
Had a meeting at a new agency today — 2Plural/evive. I don’t know what their name is, actually. The letterhead says evive, and looks cool as a palindrome, but the website is 2plural, as is the moniker on their cards. A bit of identity crisis there, about which I’m sure there is a good story. [...]
