Jobs comments on Flash at Apple Town Hall Meeting

[Jimmypoo]

>>No offense to you, MacArtist - but that thinking is a load of crap.

Yeah!

Now go out there and work harder, not smarter, and repost your car art in Flash!


:booty:

[MacArtist]

It's not a load of crap. None of the sites I regularly visit on my iPod Touch are flash driven sites.

[JEBB]

Will HTML5 mean new life for my G4 Powerbook that is brought to its knees by Flash?

[macphanatic]

MacArtist wrote:
It's not a load of crap. None of the sites I regularly visit on my iPod Touch are flash driven sites.

Me either. The only things that appear to be flash are the ads.

[Winston]

JEBB wrote:
Will HTML5 mean new life for my G4 Powerbook that is brought to its knees by Flash?

JEBB -

If you haven't installed ClickToFlash, run, don't walk, here:
http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/

It blocks all Flash in Safari, but gives you the option to click on an individual Flash item and load it, or to whitelist an entire site so that it's not blocked (such as YouTube).

The best thing I discovered is that if you don't whitelist a site you can use the ClickToFlash menu (gear icon in top left of a CTF window) to get Flash video to load with QuickTime. Stuff on YouTube which basically was unwatchable on my TiBook plays perfectly in QuickTime. You do need Perian installed for QT to play Flash:
http://perian.org/


Good luck.

- Winston

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ztirffritz wrote:
Why bother with buying a disc of a movie when you can stream it from Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, or YouTube for the same price and know that you're media won't become obsolete in 3 years.

I don't disagree on those points but Blu-ray players do an excellent job of playing DVDs and are starting to be priced very reasonably. There are also plenty of competitively priced movies on Blu-ray on the shelves now. In other words, there are few reasons not to go Blu-ray now if playing physical media is your thing.

Keep in mind too that Blu-ray is the highest technical quality medium available to consumers. There's no better way to show off that new 1080p HDTV...

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Mac-A-Matic wrote:
The fact remains that many websites today are written in Flash. Most of these websites information is contained within the Flash content.

Trapped within Flash. That's just part of the problem with Flash...

You can expect that your clients will get a clue and be changing their minds about use of Flash for their web sites. Be prepared.

I can't count the number of times I've punched up a website on my iPhone seeking contact information (or menus or whatever) only to find that it's a Flash site and my Frakking iPhone from Frakking Apple CAN'T handle the material and I'm left without the information that I seek.

Like I said, trapped... Let the web masters know.

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JEBB wrote:
Will HTML5 mean new life for my G4 Powerbook that is brought to its knees by Flash?

Not really but you'd likely see some improvement.

Using HTML 5 rather than Flash means using a true standard rather than a de facto standard. It means one more step in de-privatizing the Internet commons and that companies and people aren't held hostage by a private interest. It means greatly improved accessibility and searchability.

It also means lower energy consumption. I'm not kidding.

[freeradical]

Winston wrote:
[quote=JEBB]
Will HTML5 mean new life for my G4 Powerbook that is brought to its knees by Flash?

JEBB -

If you haven't installed ClickToFlash, run, don't walk, here:
http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/

It blocks all Flash in Safari, but gives you the option to click on an individual Flash item and load it, or to whitelist an entire site so that it's not blocked (such as YouTube).

The best thing I discovered is that if you don't whitelist a site you can use the ClickToFlash menu (gear icon in top left of a CTF window) to get Flash video to load with QuickTime. Stuff on YouTube which basically was unwatchable on my TiBook plays perfectly in QuickTime. You do need Perian installed for QT to play Flash:
http://perian.org/


Good luck.

- Winston
That site has both a stable version and a beta version. Should most users download the stable version?

[Doc]

pinkoos wrote:
"No one will be using Flash, he says. The world is moving to HTML5."

He also said that nobody needs FireWire anymore because all the new camcorders use USB.

Yet, 2-3 times each month I deal with clients who are moving video to their Macs via FireWire.

Yes, maybe in 5 years most of our online video will be delivered HTML 5.

Meantime, what are we supposed to do when we want to watch a streaming movie? Sit and spin?