Since this is/., and since there was a recent news bit about Adobe releasing its last version of Flash for Linux, could you please dump the one-off flash player and switch to something supported by HTML5? Also, I'd rather not have to deal with a noScript shit-fit in order to watch these "amazing" videos.
Serious +1. Slashdot wins over few geeks by releasing new features using obsolete technology. I've been ignoring these videos because they're not available as HTML/5 Ogg or WebM.
Not that I love flash or anything, but for now Flash works pretty much everywhere (but for iOS). WebM would be a big step backwards as only FF & Chrome supports it.
It's why I keep saying Google is managed by idiots. They need to get a WebM plugin for Safari and Internet Explorer and include this plugin with all of their software. They also need to make WebM support mandatory for Android licensing.
If they did this it'd take them about a year to be able to drop H.264 and Flash support completely.
Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers
something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition.
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Serious +1. Slashdot wins over few geeks by releasing new features using obsolete technology. I've been ignoring these videos because they're not available as HTML/5 Ogg or WebM.
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Not that I love flash or anything, but for now Flash works pretty much everywhere (but for iOS). WebM would be a big step backwards as only FF & Chrome supports it.
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