Eruanna wrote:Flash is going the way of the dinosaur (thank god!) and more and more devices these days are not coming with it preinstalled.
Flash has more security holes than swiss cheese and the fact that Firefox disables it after every single update should tell you something about it.
And yet...
One company I developed an app for last year got a huge web service that's based on Flash. Utter insanity if you ask me and the two months I had to be able to connect with them I had to be extra-careful with what websites I visited.
One company I developed an app for last year got a huge web service that's based on Flash. Utter insanity if you ask me and the two months I had to be able to connect with them I had to be extra-careful with what websites I visited.
I have no shame in using virtual machines for work.
When I had to do jobs that required Flash, I deployed a VM with Flash enabled. Did not want that on my main computer at all.
Sometimes I put Java on those VM's too. Whatever it takes to get the job done, without compromising my main computer.
Eruanna wrote:
Sometimes I put Java on those VM's too.
I wish I could do without it, but as an Android developer I absolutely need Java, there's also far too many tools written in it.
Of course I add only offline Java support - enabling Java for websites is just even more insane than Flash. I only ever found one website requiring it and I couldn't resist telling that idiot of a maintainer what I thought of it. I guess he won't get many visits because I don't know anyone who actually uses web-Java.
Eruanna wrote:
Sometimes I put Java on those VM's too.
I wish I could do without it, but as an Android developer I absolutely need Java, there's also far too many tools written in it.
Of course I add only offline Java support - enabling Java for websites is just even more insane than Flash. I only ever found one website requiring it and I couldn't resist telling that idiot of a maintainer what I thought of it. I guess he won't get many visits because I don't know anyone who actually uses web-Java.
An online service that I was given no other option to use at the time (for my type 1 diabetes I need to upload information from my pump on blood glucose levels, insulin dosage etc.) used web java. On top it was so poorly written that it barely worked 90% of the time.
Luckily my new doctor has given me a copy of the standalone software that the hospitals use so that I don't need to use that shitty website anymore.
Eruanna wrote:Flash has more security holes than swiss cheese and the fact that Firefox disables it after every single update should tell you something about it.
Firefox also disables more UI usability with every update, so take that as you will. :v
i stopped using Pale Moon because i remember going to sites and having things just plain not work at all. i don't think these sites had any Flash going on in them, but in general my experience with Pale Moon was not very good.
I've only had problems with a few sites blindly gawking at the version string and telling me to update my browser, because they suck at reading UserAgents. Nothing actually not working that isn't also nonfunctional in other browsers.
Those are also typically the ones who assume everyone is using Windows. The same version. On the same processor architecture. And does not have a smart phone.
Eruanna wrote:Those are also typically the ones who assume everyone is using Windows. The same version. On the same processor architecture. And does not have a smart phone.
And then there's the people who acknowledge but sincerely believe that a website's design should in NO WAY be altered for smartphones. I actually have had arguments about this with people, especially over the design elements that are just there for sake of accessibility (like proper use of title and alt tags on images).
