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Re: Flash
by Sebastian Sauer on Friday 02/May/2008, @06:02

> Adobe seems to be uncapable of fixing where they originate.

To be fair it was Macromedia who wrote it in the first place and someone just needs to work a bit with there other products (Director does provide there a fantastic impression how software should _not_ be) to see that it was there philosophy to deliver such kind of software ;)

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Re: Flash
by Anon on Friday 02/May/2008, @09:17

Actually plenty of the mess in Flash nowadays was introduced after Adobe taking over Macromedia. It is the versions since then (7) which turned Flash into an apparently unmanageable kitchen sink of browser plugin meets media player meets multimedia toolkit framework. To make matters worse (likely related to the worsening of the code base) Adobe doesn't even bother to offer code of Flash version after 7 for commercial licensees anymore resulting in unsupported platforms being stuck with a more and more unsupported version 7 (a mainstream example is Flash in Opera for Nintendo Wii).

That and Flash being used for the majority of ads makes me wish it'd rather die today than tomorrow.

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Re: Flash
by Sebastian Sauer on Friday 02/May/2008, @23:24

Thanks for the details which I wasn't aware of. Somewhat frustrating for those who depend on it and a good example why closed / non-free software does provide more problems then to solve any :-/

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