[RndTbl] Replacement for Adobe Flash Player

Mark Jenkins mark at parit.ca
Thu Feb 4 14:51:22 CST 2016


On 02/04/16 14:04, Wyatt Zacharias wrote:
> Google Chrome has flash built in, so it updates automatically with
> Chrome's updates, which are also automatic, so nothing to click for the
> user.

Not relevant to unix, but Microsoft Edge on Windows 10 is the same deal.

When pointing this out, it's also worth mentioning that for both Chrome 
and Edge, the flash implementation is Adobe Flash, Google and Microsoft 
have deals with Adobe to embed and rebuild it their code.

They didn't use the public spec and write their own implementation. 
There are some free software projects that have tried to do so like Gnash.

A noteworthy contrast if anyone worries about compatibility.





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