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Most news videos won’t run without Flash. Far as I know. Anyone have a suggestion?


9 posted on 06/18/2016 10:59:13 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( It Can't Happen Here -- Sinclair Lewis.)
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I'm finding there are actually few videos that won't run without Flash, once you've uninstalled it. But if it's still installed...
11 posted on 06/18/2016 11:06:28 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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Most news videos won’t run without Flash. Far as I know. Anyone have a suggestion?

Well, there are programmers who are into ultra-low defect programming, rewriting the Flash VM in Ada and SPARK would allow for proving the absence absence of entire classes of errors. (It's already been done w/ DNS, and the really interesting thing is that besides eliminating classes of vulnerabilities/errors, it's actually faster than BIND and [IIRC[ Windows DNS.)

12 posted on 06/18/2016 11:07:51 AM PDT by Edward.Fish
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I writing this from a Win-10 dev box that I built without flash.

So far the only site that wouldn’t let me view videos has been Twitter (I get an error that says “your browser doesn’t support embedded videos”).

When i go to a site that has videos I get a pop-up asking to install flash. I dismiss it and within three seconds the video loads and away I go.

I have noticed that a lot of sites embed other flash elements into their pages and that displays as code. It’s messy but manageable and just reflects poorly on the web programmer.

Yes, there is life without Flash!


16 posted on 06/18/2016 11:32:19 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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