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Originally Posted by AdaBwana View Post
Quite curious, Wikiwide . . . What is the (are) reason(s) for not using flash or silverlight for n900?
One: everything that Flash was doing before, HTML+Javascript can do now. Such as, video playing, headers/menus/navigation. Not interested in computer games, but they don't have to rely on Flash, either.

Two: since Flash player/client/plugin was/is written by Adobe, without any variety such as gnash, it is/was an easy place to attack. At the same time, HTML+Javascript are handled by a variety of web-browsers, which do not have the same predictable vulnerabilities, and thus do not offer such a reward to malware writers. And there are also Flash cookies, which make privacy more difficult to maintain.

Three: Flash player is closed-source, and much of Flash content on the web is closed-source, too. Not something to support.

Hence, Flash is useless, dangerous, and proprietary. Do not see a good reason to support it. I understand that it used to be an interactive PDF-lookalike thing which is guaranteed to work everywhere, the same way, without a hitch... But that was because web browsers had their quirks, and HTML wasn't feature-rich enough. Which isn't true anymore.

Not sure what Silverlight is. Just know that it's written by Microsoft, and hence, proprietary and dangerous [because nearly every Windows computer has Silverlight installed]. And likely useless, but I don't know what Silverlight is.

Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
There is hardly any reason for using Flash on a desktop PC nowadays, let alone on the N900. Flash is dead.
Quite true.

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