Use ClickToPlugin - it's a Safari Extension that replaces plugin views with gray boxes that you can click to load. If you don't click them, they don't load and no messages Popup. If you click them, it behaves just like normal.
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Apple Forcing Users to Upgrade to Latest Adobe Flash Plug-In Due to Security Issues
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Use ClickToPlugin - it's a Safari Extension that replaces plugin views with gray boxes that you can click to load. If you don't click them, they don't load and no messages Popup. If you click them, it behaves just like normal.
Targeting the iConsume crowd would be more profitable, and therefore would justify the expense of getting rid of dying technology.
Same here.
No it isn't. Flash Player can play H.264, but it is much more than that.
The crowd you're talking about normally has a normal computer that can run flash as well as a device. So, they're likely getting more people the way they're going at it right now.
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You just better hooey you're using the right browser for that awesome HTML5 goodness. I think, right now, it is IE 11 and Safari 8. I don't know which other support it. I think ChromeOS?
Yes you can. First thing you need to do is enable the developer's menu.
- Pull down the Safari menu and choose Preferences
- Click on the Advanced tab
- Check the box next to Show Develop menu in menu bar
Now when this happens just do the following :
- Click the "Develop" pull-down.
- Select "User Agent"
- Select "iPad"
This will make the site think you're on an iPad and use the HTML5 codec. I don't know why site developers do this for iOS devices but don't just jump into HTML5 fully? I mean it seems like more work to support two different systems than to just forge ahead. I mean all modern browsers support HTML5, Flash has been considered dying for some time now, why support it? Especially if you've made the effort to redesign for HTML5?
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All current browsers support HTML5 : HTML5 Test Results
IE, Chrome and Yosemite version of Safari seem to all support it; Firefox is a bit behind as well as Opera. But it's an open standard, I'm sure they will adopt it in the near term.
In the meantime, I'll let everyone know that you're willing to run around and manually upgrade everybody's plug-ins on their computers for free, to support your website. I'm sure you'll be receiving calls shortly.
You knew exactly what he meant. The same as how Mac OS 9 died, but only solely because one single person volunteered to rewrite all the applications personally. You just chose to play the card of douchery.
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I find that I'm easily able to surf the web without flash as long as I use Click-To-Plugin to feed HTML 5 content.
The only times I must use Chrome are certain videos that don't have HTML 5 or on school websites where online work requires flash (like Pearson).
The only times I must use Chrome are certain videos that don't have HTML 5 or on school websites where online work requires flash (like Pearson).
Companies with any sense redesigned their sites ages ago when the OG iPad sold crazy amounts and couldn't see the sites. And given that Flash is anti accessibility that was another reason to stop.the security concerns adding a third.
So yeah perhaps it is time to "let it go"
If 200 million iPads have sold over the course of its lifespan (all versions) and there are 1.5 billion traditional PCs out there ... well, I think you see where I'm going with this.
Enable the "Develop" menu (Preferences, Advanced) and change your user agent to "Safari iOS7 - iPad", works on most websites.
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And 1.25 billion of those traditional PCs still out there are too weak to run any recently made Flash websites.
Last time I checked PCs can handle html5 etc. So what's the issue again.
Oh and you might want to check your numbers. As of mid Oct 2023 it was 170 million iPads, as of March 2014 it was 500 million iPhones and as of May 2013 100 million iPod touches. That's a lot of devices that don't use Flash (and at this point neither do all those millions of android devices and likely not those Surface RT).
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The issue is that it's cheaper and easier to make things in flash.
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I can make up statistics out of my rear as well ....
Thank you, I will try this out tonight. One last question. Does this have to be done each time or is there a way to set this as a default for the browser and be done with it once and for all.
Thanks again for the advice.
Flash is the Fidel Castro of software.
Lots of people have been trying, but it's inexplicably still around.
The more popular software is the more likely there will be more and more people looking for exploits in it, and the more people look the more likely they will find something since practically no software is fully secure, especially any that is designed and used in an online environment.
Is this a serious question? Because I can find at least five pieces of software that had more flaws found last year in comparison to Adobe Flash.