No more flash updates?

2013-01-14 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
Hi All, Over on http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=JZEFT it states: NOTE: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security backports to Flash Player 11.2 for

Re: No more flash updates?

2013-01-14 Thread Christopher Tooley
Another option is to install Google Chrome and get more recent versions of Flash provided for you by Google. As far as I know, Google made an agreement with Adobe to allow Google to support Flash on linux - I'm willing to be corrected on this if someone has a source that negates this premise.

Re: No more flash updates?

2013-01-15 Thread Dr Andrew C Aitchison
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: Hi All, Over on http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=JZEFT it states: NOTE: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide securit

Re: No more flash updates?

2013-01-15 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:32:33AM -0800, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: > http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=JZEFT My reading of tea leaves is that going forward, the only flash for linux will be the one packaged by google as part of the google-chrome web browser. -- Konstantin

Re: No more flash updates?

2013-01-16 Thread Paul Robert Marino
Close but thats not the whole truth. Most of the functions of flash plus better 3D rendering can now be achieved by HTML 5, so really flash is only being used now for legacy web site support. Most mobile devices don't support flash but they all support HTML 5. Adobe has even started changing their

Re: No more flash updates?

2013-01-16 Thread Todd And Margo Chester
On 01/16/2013 03:22 PM, Paul Robert Marino wrote: Close but thats not the whole truth. Most of the functions of flash plus better 3D rendering can now be achieved by HTML 5, so really flash is only being used now for legacy web site support. Most mobile devices don't support flash but they all su

Re: No more flash updates?

2013-01-17 Thread Gerhard Schneider
On 01/17/2013 12:22 AM, Paul Robert Marino wrote: > Most of the functions of flash plus better 3D rendering can now be > achieved by HTML 5, so really flash is only being used now for legacy > web site support. Most mobile devices don't support flash but they all > support HTML 5. Adobe has even s

Re: No more flash updates?

2013-01-17 Thread Paul Robert Marino
yea I have to admit the mp3 thing is a little annoying but can be fixed by any number of plugins so its not a total loss. but then again audio in websites has always been an odd thing to implement. that being said Ive been using novnc on an almost daily basis. despite the unavoidable latency it ad

Re: No more flash updates?

2013-01-18 Thread Gerhard Schneider
On 01/17/2013 04:39 PM, Paul Robert Marino wrote: > yea I have to admit the mp3 thing is a little annoying but can be > fixed by any number of plugins so its not a total loss. but then again > audio in websites has always been an odd thing to implement. > Sorry, perhaps I missed something, but I