Adobe Releases Beta of 64-Bit Flash Player for Mac OS X

[Mattie Num Nums]

Numbers. That's it.

Numbers pay the bills.

 

[KnightWRX]

Pshaw. Why support browsers that don't care about standards or anyone else? Numbers. That's it.

The point is, people like Gigi going "HTML5 OR BUST!, FLASH IS DEAD" are wrong. Today, right now, HTML5 isn't here in numbers yet.

Nothing is wrong with providing an HTML5 option to those who can see it. Nothing is wrong with using a fallback for someone who doesn't have proper HTML5 support. HTML5 is not widespread enough where you can say things like Flash are dead. There's a lot of browsers out there without canvas/audio/video support that still require things like Flash for complex animations and multimedia.

 

[epheterson]

is it just me or is there no link to a 64-bit download on that site?

 

[karsten]

is it just me or is there no link to a 64-bit download on that site?

go here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/square/

 

[linux2mac]

Non issue for me. I have Click2Flash, as a result my Macs run better without buggy Flash screwing things up. Besides, Flash is a dying technology like the optical drive soon.

 

[PeterQVenkman]

Not to mention that if he ends up using IEisms, it will work on IE7 and will look on crap on everything else. Too bad he just used IE7 to test... Seriously.

IE7, ugh. Want to hear some real terror? One of my company's clients requires their stuff to work in IE6 through 8. And Firefox. And Safari.

Beat that horror!

I personally have been working over time to be the kind of web designer that has support for all instances, I use script that will default to Flash if nothing else will work. I have been doing this for about twenty years, and believe me

I didn't think Flash was 20 years old, so I don't know if I believe you...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash#History

 

[KnightWRX]

IE7, ugh. Want to hear some real terror? One of my company's clients requires their stuff to work in IE6 through 8. And Firefox. And Safari.

Beat that horror!

My company only tests on IE6 since they "standardized" on it since 2004. The Web programmers are such total tools that the sites they do code do only work on IE6. Open them up in even IE7 and they break, don't even try things like Chrome/Firefox.

I can write better HTML in my sleep and I only do it as a hobby once in a while.

 

[kwiiboy]

Why didn't they make a 32-bit version first?

 

[linux2mac]

My company only tests on IE6 since they "standardized" on it since 2004. The Web programmers are such total tools that the sites they do code do only work on IE6. Open them up in even IE7 and they break, don't even try things like Chrome/Firefox.

I can write better HTML in my sleep and I only do it as a hobby once in a while.

A static website is useless. I hope your web dev team is doing more than just coding HTML.

 

[Haribokart]

I don't get why their 64-bit beta & the recent flash 10.2 beta are not merged together.

 

[KnightWRX]

A static website is useless. I hope your web dev team is doing more than just coding HTML.

What is your point exactly ? Of course they do more, that doesn't preclude writing proper HTML like they obviously don't do. I wrote perfectly standards compliant sites in Perl, PHP, RoR, PerlScript/VBScript in an ASP container, name it.

The web devs at my work are complete tools. I think I saw a few "Frontpage Express" meta headers in some of their HTML sources.