bad news for flash developers?
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- tfs__mag
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/int…
from the front page of the cnn website
- unfittoprint0
eolas motherfuckers.
- Epictive0
Information from Macromedia here:
- sparker0
yea...one of the few times i've cheered for microsoft in a court case.
:)
- dstlb0
Shit, that is baaaaad news indeed. Cheers Eolas, you just fucked up the entire web :(
- AD0
I don't get it - but i'm not the brightest
can someone explain why only IE is being sued - don't applets,swf's etc start automatically in most current browsers - opera, mozilla, safari
me no get it
oh ya by the way I invented the internet, so pay up - ok
- sparker0
wow. i downloaded the special developer version of IE. it's really fucking annoying. everytime flash loads in NT, a pop-up asks if you want to load the content.
users will not like that at all.
- AD0
this sounds like bad news mor for Macromedia more then anyone
- unknown0
did you guys bother to read the MM documentation? there is a simple workaround. This is barely even an issue.
- unfittoprint0
'This is barely even an issue.'
For most of us it isn't. Still there will be a lot of sites that will not change their html and the people that don't browse that much, most of them will not agree with that pop up window, thinking is just another one of those adware annoyances. Oh and Apple [quicktime] have also problems with this, in fact everything that uses activeX as communication between plugin and browser...
- dstlb0
The workaround is pretty simple but it'll be a while until developers get round to it, if at all on some sites, which will give plugins like Flash a bad name as the general public won't understand the problem - they'll just see it's connected with Flash (most commonly) and that'll add to people in the media slating it. It gets enough bad press already without this on top.
- sparker0
"This is barely even an issue."
that is a huge understatement...every site i have visited with flash has failed ( unless i agree to the pop-up ).
the work-arounds seem pretty easy ( like the external javascript solution )...but the fact that developers now have yet another hack to concern themselves with is another step backwards in web design and development.
the vast majority of developers and designers still don't use good, valid, proper markup or web standards because they either don't want to learn, don't know about or are just too lazy to make the switch.
there are plenty of web folks still coding in html 2, i doubt they're going to take the time to learn about this new plugin problem.
that will make already poorly constructed sites even worse.
but, oh well. god bless the capitalist way.
:)
- fugged0
I say burn Eola to the freakin ground. I can understand protecting a patent, but at what cost?
- Mimio0
The settlement should've included a lease of the Eola product.
- JazX0
Eolas mutha fuckers is RIGHT!! DAMN that would ruin the Net.
- JazX0
well, Macromedia wil; be forced to pay TONS and TONS of money to MS for the right to use their browsers.
- whiteSneaks0
what are you planning on doing in response? stop using flash? stick to straight html and call it a day?
- fugged0
Sounds like the popup can be avoided under these two conditions:
1. The controls are created dynamically from script loaded from another location.
2. The controls do not reference remote data.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/ieupda…
So does this mean the pop up with the accept can be completly avoided?
- whiteSneaks0
why will macromedia owe ms money?
- jevad0
fuck eolas - fuckin fucks have set the internet back another 2 years - as if the browser wars weren't bad enough....