Re: Some Flash news

2016-06-05 Thread Sven Hartge 
Stuart Longland  wrote:
> On 17/05/16 04:20, Erwan David wrote:

>> Problem is not the browser. Problem is sites/Appliances which require
>> it (eg. VMWare vcenter)

> VMWare are allegedly getting rid of their Flash dependence.

Well, kind of.

A new HTML5-based web client for vSphere is in development and will
probably be released with vSphere 6.5. But: The old, Flash-based web
client will still be around in 6.5.

And the older versions, like vSphere 5.5 are still widely used (because
6.0 has been riddled with serious and desastrous bugs, even 1.5 years
after relase).

As a vSphere Admin myself I will stick to vSphere 5.5 for the forseeable
future, because I want to sleep at night and not be worrying about what
might break right now because of the instability of 6.0 and I know of
countless others who will do the same.

Looking at http://www.virten.net/vmware/product-end-of-support-countdown/
vSphere 5.5 is supported until September 2018 and vSphere 6.0 is supported
until March 2020, so you can expect the need for Flash until at least then.

And if the integration of 3rd-party solutions into the new HTML5 client
is problematic, then you might as well wait until 2023 to finally get
rid of Flash.

Yes, that is 7 years from now.

Grüße,
Sven.

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Re: Some Flash news

2016-06-04 Thread Stuart Longland 
On 17/05/16 04:20, Erwan David wrote:
> Problem is not the browser. Problem is sites/Appliances which require it
> (eg. VMWare vcenter)

VMWare are allegedly getting rid of their Flash dependence.

-- 
Stuart Longland (aka Redhatter, VK4MSL)

I haven't lost my mind...
  ...it's backed up on a tape somewhere.



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Re: Some Flash news

2016-05-16 Thread Mike Castle 
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Sven Arvidsson  wrote:
> That's Shumway from Mozilla.

Google's Swiffy fits into this domain as well.

mrc

Re: Some Flash news

2016-05-16 Thread Sven Arvidsson 
On Mon, 2016-05-16 at 17:01 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> When will someone provide a Flash implementation in Javascript

That's Shumway from Mozilla. 

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Re: Some Flash news

2016-05-16 Thread Stefan Monnier 
> For those still using Flash and/or Chrome
> http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2458329/googles-chrome-browser-will-switch-off-flash-content-by-default

When will someone provide a Flash implementation in Javascript
(probably by combining the existing Flash implementation with
a C-to-Javascript compiler)?


Stefan

Re: Some Flash news

2016-05-16 Thread Erwan David 
Le 16/05/2016 à 20:00, Frank McCormick a écrit :
> For those still using Flash and/or Chrome
>
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> http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2458329/googles-chrome-browser-will-switch-off-flash-content-by-default
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Problem is not the browser. Problem is sites/Appliances which require it
(eg. VMWare vcenter)