On Sun, 15 Apr 2018 09:26:33 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 15/04/18 00:40, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> On Sat, 14 Apr 2018 15:06:35 +1200, John H. Guillory wrote:
>>
>>>       And what's wrong with using Flash Applets?
>>>
>> I for one won't use Flash, and haven't ever since there have been
>> credible alternatives. Its got far too many hacker-friendly coding
>> mistakes in it for my taste and is either:
>>
>> - so badly written that its unrepairable
>>
>> OR
>>
>> - Adobe has never had any intention of doing more than the bare
>>    minimum to stop users from walking away
>>
>> ....your choice of which to believe.
>>
>>
> Flash is horrible, like Postcript, but it was the first and for a time
> the only standrad and so one needs to be able to accomidate it.
>
> I remember walkig into my friendly computer emprioum and aying 'oh look,
> I've put an HTML5 video on this website' weherupon the proprietor typed
> in the URL into IE whatever.....
>
> ...and the WinPC promptly blue screened.
>
> "I havent seen THAT in a long time" he grinned.

so proving the Internet exploder is no good, nothing to do with the HTML5




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