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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    [gentoo-user] Re: No more FLASH on Linux ?
From:       Nikos Chantziaras <realnc () arcor ! de>
Date:       2012-02-25 15:27:08
Message-ID: jiaukf$a35$1 () dough ! gmane ! org
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On 25/02/12 16:48, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2012-02-25, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de>  wrote:
>> On 24/02/12 17:35, Grant Edwards wrote:
>>> On 2012-02-24, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de>   wrote:
>>>> On 24/02/12 07:02, pk wrote:
>>>>> On 2012-02-24 05:15, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> user can watch. Flash on the other hand guarantees web designers that a
>>>>>> PC user can watch their videos. Having a guarantee that something works
>>>>>> is a very powerful incentive; you do not abandon something that works.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's only guaranteed if flash is installed. HTML5 is pretty much
>>>>> "guaranteed" with current browsers.
>>>>
>>>> Flash has about 95% coverage.
>>>> That means virtually everyone has it installed.
>>>
>>> That's hard to believe.  The number of iPads and and iPhones out there
>>> is getting pretty high, and they don't have flash and never will.
>>
>> In PCs, not other machines.
>
> Why the restriction to PCs?  Web designers and website owners don't
> care about PCs.  They care about browsers and eyballs.

PC users have browsers.  95% of those browsers have Flash.

I think this is pretty easy to understand.  Perhaps it's a language 
barrier and I have trouble expressing myself clearly?


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