Adobe Flash Player 10.3 Officially Debuts With New Privacy Controls

[UTclassof89]

Then you don't understand the issues behind these plug-ins.

Disagreeing with you doesn't mean I don't understand; it means I disagree. Don't be condescending.

The generic text editor is the absolutely most powerful/flexible HTML/CSS editor there is.

Nope. WYSIWYG editors like Coda and Dreamweaver allow you to edit the text (exactly like text editors) PLUS productivity features that allow for much more rapid development.

 

[KnightWRX]

Disagreeing with you doesn't mean I don't understand; it means I disagree. Don't be condescending.

Either you don't understand vendor lock-in, or you're a vendor that is attempting lock-in. No sane user likes vendor lock-in. It is anti-capitalistic and anti-community. It only profits the vendors.

So I stick by what I said. You don't understand the issue if you disagree with me. I am not being condescending, I am simply assuming you're not a vendor.

Sorry if you're a Microsoft/Adobe employee though, then yes, you have a right to disagree with me and keep pushing your locked down Web agenda.

 

[MorphingDragon]

Nope. WYSIWYG editors like Coda and Dreamweaver allow you to edit the text (exactly like text editors) PLUS productivity features that allow for much more rapid development.

WYSIWYG creation is not actually used by a lot of developers, its far too limiting. It lacks the speed and precision of text based editing. A lot of the big websites use PHP, ASP.Net or Django, they're certainly not WYSIWYG compatible.

 

[dime21]

It's funny how Adobe finally woke up over the past 6 months, releasing Flash Player 10.2 and now 10.3 in rapid succession, with simultaneous OSX / Linux / Windows releases. I guess it just took SJ saying Flash is obsolete to light a fire under the arses. lol.

 

[KnightWRX]

It's funny how Adobe finally woke up over the past 6 months, releasing Flash Player 10.2 and now 10.3 in rapid succession, with simultaneous OSX / Linux / Windows releases. I guess it just took SJ saying Flash is obsolete to light a fire under the arses. lol.

Not really. Simultaneous release for platforms have been around for a while. They have been steadily releasing versions over the years (what's so great about minor releases ?) and have not really accelerated.

What's so great was 10.1 and the fact that Apple finally provided a suitable API for Adobe to implement H.264 hardware decoding.

Maybe Steve should stop calling other vendors lazy and start looking in his own backyard.

 

[SDAVE]

Flash actually is super smooth under Windows...but OS X, especially under FF4.0, is slow and drops frames all the time (video, etc.)

Apple doesn't provide direct access to the OS X API, hence why. It might be bad programming from Adobe that's been carried out from the Macromedia days, but I doubt it would be that easy to rewrite Flash all over again.

 

[Daveoc64]

I disagree that browser plug-ins are an attempt to "lock down" or "close off" anything. Browsers were deliberately built with open-ended architecture exactly so vendors could add functionality w/o waiting for W3C to add to the official HTML/CSS spec. They allow anyone to add that capability to their browser of choice immediately, and for free.

It's a good thing.

Browsers w/o open-ended architecture (Mobile Safari) aren't "open".

(and no, the premiere authoring tool for HTML is not a text editor! Most people use Dreamweaver due to the many productivity features that text editors lack)

While plug ins might be "open" in most browsers (i.e. not on iOS), it's simply not possible for someone developing a plug in to make it work on every possible hardware and software platform that people want to use it on. Flash is probably one of the most widely available plugins, yet it still lacks support for key platforms.

 

[wbeasley]

I'm beginning to suspect it's Safari who's poorly coded, why is it that everyone that suffers crash bugs in their browsers running Flash is using Safari ?

Or do people not know what a "crash" is ?

It's not just Safari... recently Firefox 3 and 4 have been having LOTS of script lockups with Flash sites too. Just hangs and hangs and then needs killing or does it itself. Have updated now so guess we'll see if the new version is any better...

 

[oliversl]

Since 2007, every release of flash overheat this MacBook. Including this one

 

[AidenShaw]

Since 2007, every release of flash overheat this MacBook. Including this one

Perhaps the problem is that MacBook. Windows laptops run Flash without any overheating problems.

Maybe your MacBook should be a little bit thicker so that it can have fans that can dissipate the heat generated by normal applications?

 

[KnightWRX]

Perhaps the problem is that MacBook. Windows laptops run Flash without any overheating problems.

Maybe your MacBook should be a little bit thicker so that it can have fans that can dissipate the heat generated by normal applications?

MacBooks don't overheat unless the fans are broken and not starting up or the user has purposefully disabled them using an application. Flash is not different than any other application in that way.

Either the person you're responding to is lying or doesn't know what overheat means. My GF has an old whitebook (pre-unibody), she plays Farmville all the time.

 

[Steve121178]

I have serious problems with Flash every day on my MacBook. Locks up Safari completely long time. Sometimes I have to kill the Flash Player process to be able to use Safari again. Uses up a lot of CPU.

Fix the stability problems first!

Switch to a decent browser to solve your problem....

 

[Jolly Jimmy]

Switch to a decent browser to solve your problem....

Millions use Safari and Flash every day without any problems...