Flash 10 on Linux Launches in Unison
By Andrew Miller in Editorial
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Part of me loves Flash and part of me hates it. I’ve seen some great examples of its application, such as the Sarah Palin website but prior to YouTube, 99% of its use was unnecessary and annoying. Let’s not forget from an SEO point of view that Google only recently started indexing flash files. Until recently, I even had a blanket rule against Javascript too, with a server side only approach. But this is not the reason I bring up Flash…
Flash 10 was launched today and unlike say, Google Chrome, it was released for Windows, Linux and Mac simultaneously. This is quite a big thing for the Linux community as it puts Linux in the same category as the big two in terms of importance. Love it or hate it, Flash is a necessity nowadays if you want to take advantage of the now media rich Internet, so to see it available on all platforms is a great thing one of many reasons why I hope Silverlight will be laughed off the stage.
I’ve had terrible trouble with Flash on Ubuntu Hardy. It regularly decides to just stop working and leaves me with a grey box - I can’t even find a single cause for why this happens. The only solution is to close FireFox and reload. Not a problem you say - it stores all your open tabs! But not if you have more than one FireFox window open. I often have two or three windows open with multiple tabs in each. So I’m forced to either amalgamate all the tabs onto one window, or simply close down and start again. Let’s hope that Flash 10 solves this issue - for my sanity at least.
Ubuntu Intrepid will be released later this month, which I know a lot of people are excited about. I am going to be attending the London launch on the 30th. This is open to all - so anyone else who is excited should come along for the festivities.
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