"Occupy Flash" campaign urges users to uninstall Adobe Flash plugin

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/11/occupy-flash-campaign-urges-users-to-uninstall-adobe-flash-plugin.ars

by evo_9 • 15 years ago

13 11 15 years ago

This is a silly movement. Flash isn't going anywhere, and there's no reason for it to. "HTML5" isn't finalized, well supported, and is (in my experience) almost always slower than the equivalent Flash code. Flash is supposedly bringing fullscreen support and right-click functionality too, one of my biggest gripes with the technology.

I support open source, I want HTML5 to replace Flash, but we're not nearly there yet. Wait for the technology to mature.

mzahir• 15 years ago

Shouldn't this be named "Unoccupy Flash" or just "Uninstall Flash"? It seems silly to use "Occupy" in this context.

rsanchez1• 15 years ago

How Occupy Wall Street and Flash are related is beyond me. Seems to me this group is over-zealous in their crusade to eliminate Flash, their near-religious devotion clouding their judgement.

untog• 15 years ago

This 'occupy' meme needs to die.

Also, like it or not, HTML5 is not yet ready to replace Flash (both in the technologies it makes available and the level of adoption). Let's get there first.

grrrrrrrrr• 15 years ago

'Occupy' is taken. What's more, it's taken by people fighting a fight that is not unimportant, banal dribblings.

ebrenes• 15 years ago

And now there's also an Occupy HTML movement, granted a bit more level-headed in their approach.

http://occupyhtml.org/

vertr• 15 years ago

And they stole the occupyflash design and adapted it for their alternative cause. I can't help but wonder if one of these pages is a joke?

seanalltogether• 15 years ago

"Flash...is holding the web back". If anything, the Flash plugin has been helping to provide the roadmap for new html features for the past 5 years.

bootz15• 15 years ago

If I occupy it, shouldn't I install it? I'm confused..

pan69• 15 years ago

A sad initiative by a bunch of sad people hating for the sake of hating.

whatever_dude• 15 years ago

Wonder why they're anonymous.

"Occupy Flash" campaign urges users to uninstall Adobe Flash plugin

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