From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <74e3492a0805070215p7ff19cack7f5a844f4a8110ad@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 12:15:57 +0300 From: "Harri Haataja" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: <1202606924.16959@arch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1202594896.16777@arch> <1202606924.16959@arch> Subject: Re: [9fans] Flash Topicbox-Message-UUID: a0ceba90-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 2008/2/10 Richard Uhtenwoldt : > Paul Lalonde writes: > >If time is the constraint, then just uninstall all your web browsers > If I did that, I would indeed waste less time, but I would also > have to forgo great benefits that I now enjoy. In contrast, I > derived almost no benefit from Flash web pages. I occasionally do. Particularly since flash video is so popular all around. Given the miserable "support" for any other type of video distribution, in many cases I can see why flash players are used so much. A lot of grief can be avoided by installing a flash block extension (at least FF allows that) to add another feature that should have been there in the first place. Then you get buttons instead of flash elements that you can click to start flash only for those elements you want to. Terrible and ugly, yes. But it works with what there is. -- I appear to be temporarily using gmail's horrible interface. I apologise for any failure in my part in trying to make it do the right thing with post formatting.