[ale] [OT] flash sites suck - (was Ubuntu 9.04 & Flash at pandora.com, facebook)

[Jim Popovitch]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 13:00, Robert Reese~ <ale at sixit.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:09, Robert Reese~ <ale at sixit.com> wrote:
>>
>>> (Too bad the dipsticks at Pandora aren't bright enough to figure
>>> out how to deliver their content without Flash.  Heck, you can't
>>> even sign up without Flash... f'ing morons...)
>>>
>>
>> Bad morning, eh?  :-)
>
> Meh, not too bad.  :c)  I just have a very low tolerance for idiots that think
> Flash is a website powering technology; I consider such people to be lazy,
> ignorant, or stupid, or any combination thereof.  There is a purpose and a
> reason for internet standards to exist; thankfully even Microsoft has finally
> gotten the picture w/r/t I.E. in upcoming version 8; their implementation of
> standards still has a ways to go, but they have made enormous progress (for MS)
> in getting away from the hell that was created by and for IE 5 and especially IE
> 6.  The good news is that companies that went the cheap/lazy way requiring IE,
> and especially ActiveX, are finding that with future versions of IE starting
> with 8 that their websites and technology are going to require extensive changes
> to work properly, and those changes will essentially force the website to work
> much more properly on Firefox and other standards-compliant browsers such as
> Opera and Safari.  (It also doesn't hurt that portable net-capable devices are
> poised on the horizon to drastically change the way people access the internet
> and various destinations thereof.)
>
> As far as Pandora goes specifically, there's nothing on pandora.com that should
> require flash for account purposes.  And for those purposes that use Flash, such
> as the delivery of their streams, they should provide non-Flash alternatives.
> Humorously, their implementation of Flash is buggy as far as their sample player
> is concerned.
>
> At least the potential for competition is there if Pandora proves to be more
> popular. ;c)  Interestingly, it isn't very far at all from a business plan I'm
> developing...
>
> Oh, well.. back to the grind.  How're things with you?

:-) Me, i'm doing ok.  Enjoying some Pandora whilst working, however
still on my Ubuntu 8.10 laptop.

I must say, I don't see any of the flash problems you seem to be experiencing.

-Jim P.