Steve Jobs wins.
Adobe will continue to support the existing products for mobile devices, but otherwise pull the plug on new development.
HTML5 is the non-proprietary alternative to Flash.
With the large number of security exploits found in Flash and .pdf, and Flash’s willingness to store tracking information that can bypass your choices to not allow third parties to see what you’re doing, I only hope we can quickly see it vanish from all web sites. I won’t mourn its passing for a moment.
In a related development, the stillborn Silverlight player from Microsoft is also ending development, looking to HMTL5 as its replacement.
Most users don’t like proprietary solutions that force them to install additional software that has potential security issues and does things like update itself without asking pemission.
I also wish Real Player to receive final rites.
For a good time, go to your google search box if you are using firefox or chome and type in
do a barrel roll
In probably unrelated news, the CEO of Live365 is leaving.
What’s a dobe?
Piquerist poses a good question… the short answer being: dried mud.
The first sentence of Wikepedia’s answer provides a bit more humor. 😉
IMO, Adobe only truly created three products: PostScript, Illustrator, and the synthesis of those two: PDF (Acrobat, etc)… otherwise, they took a similar path to Microsoft; licensing software apps (Photoshop) or buying out competing developers.
Acquiring Macromedia was a coup, but I knew it would eventually result in quirky UI, code bloat, and other missteps by Adobe. Witness the minimal improvement of CS3, CS4, CS5, and now CS5.5 (subscription) with their confusing array of suites/apps.
BTW, ‘do a barrel roll’ didn’t work. Probably because I don’t keep my browser updated to the latest “let us co-opt your machine” version of Java/Flash/etc.
tilt should work too.
It relies on CSS3, which is used in Firefox and Chrome. Of course, if you put Google in a restricted zone, it also won’t work.
FireFox 3.6.15 ’tilt’ works, but ‘do a barrel roll’ does not.
Oh My, this is much worse of a kludge than I thought 🙂
http://www.thebdr.net/articles/fcc/eas/eas.html
The PEPs were connected to FEMA using a phone bridge using dialup phone lines. According to this source, WCCO took the EAS message and echoed it back to FEMA – which took the WCCO feedback and fed it into the bridge which is why every PEP got the overlapping messages.
The basic guess was correct – had the test not ended at 30 seconds, WCCO would have continued to echo the audio over and over and caused the test to continue until someone broke the phone bridge to stop it.
🙁 sigh … I know wut adobe is. I asked what a DOBE is? And don’t tell me itsa dog, either.
Yep, I saw how you parsed the letters the first time… pun understood.
I just felt an urge to cite ‘Adobe’ (Flash) as being dried mud, etc. 😉
So, what is a dobe?