In the serious world of web development you look at your audience, and figure out how to best serve them. Sometimes that means doing stupid things like zoom:1 to make sure Internet Explorer 6 doesn't play peakaboo with your HTML. Sometimes that means using flash because it is used by most everyone and for whatever reason is widely adopted. <br>
<br>In all cases, you should attempt to degrade gracefully. We can all bitch about the few who get the short end of the stick, but when you're trying to reach an audience, someone almost always is going to get the short end of the stick if you want to do something more rich and dynamic than plain text.<br>
<br clear="all">Cheers,<br>Tom Longson (nym)<br>------------------------------<br><a href="http://tomlongson.com">http://tomlongson.com</a><br><br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Leif Ryge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leif@synthesize.us">leif@synthesize.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">Tom Longson (nym) wrote:<br>
> I recommend either a) supporting just a flash player since all web<br>
> browsers like Flash (except for the .001% who think lynx is the best way<br>
> to surf the web).<br>
<br>
</div>You're breaking the web. Stop that. Flash is software monoculture; it is<br>
the only piece of software who's bugs affect "everyone". Except it isn't<br>
really everyone; it is actually a lot more than 0.001% of people who can<br>
not run flash because Adobe doesn't support their platform. The web is a<br>
wonderful cross platform open thing and by repeating this nonsense about<br>
flash having 99.999% penetration you contribute to proliferation of suck<br>
and you should stop. Web browsers don't "support" flash, it is the other<br>
way around. There are tons of places where you can run Firefox but can't<br>
run flash. This rant brought to you by PowerPC, x86_64, MIPS, and ARM :(<br>
<font color="#888888">~leif<br>
</font>ps. Yes I know there is flash on Linux x86_64 now, and some ARM Linuxes.<br>
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