[Noisebridge-discuss] Embedding ogg audio into a web page?

Christie Dudley longobord at gmail.com
Sat Oct 17 00:27:15 UTC 2009


And speaking as one who's running 64 bit linux... Adobe only offers /alpha/
code.  It kinda sorta works on my system.  I do appreciate those who
advocate for other means of doing things.

Christie
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Leif Ryge <leif at synthesize.us> wrote:

> Tom Longson (nym) wrote:
> > I recommend either a) supporting just a flash player since all web
> > browsers like Flash (except for the .001% who think lynx is the best way
> > to surf the web).
>
> You're breaking the web. Stop that. Flash is software monoculture; it is
> the only piece of software who's bugs affect "everyone". Except it isn't
> really everyone; it is actually a lot more than 0.001% of people who can
> not run flash because Adobe doesn't support their platform. The web is a
> wonderful cross platform open thing and by repeating this nonsense about
> flash having 99.999% penetration you contribute to proliferation of suck
> and you should stop. Web browsers don't "support" flash, it is the other
> way around. There are tons of places where you can run Firefox but can't
> run flash. This rant brought to you by PowerPC, x86_64, MIPS, and ARM :(
> ~leif
> ps. Yes I know there is flash on Linux x86_64 now, and some ARM Linuxes.
>
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