[dba-Tech] Linux and Firefox

It appears that both Silverlight (what a waste of money if it was expected
to be a Flash replacement) and Flash, are on their way out. Adobe has even
created a new product called Edge, which will create Flash like browser
results but uses HTML5 and CSS3. (Free for download:
http://tinyurl.com/6adgd4t as they are looking for early adopters in the
developer's community.) 

You are going to run into these issues for a while as one product is being
phased out and being replaced by another. 

Android still supports Flash as Google is the proud owner of YouTube but a
replacement technology is in the works as so many Flash experts are also
migrating and want to have a solid alternative.

There are now, many free Flash website designs, as companies are shedding
their stables of Flash inventory and are now using them as bait, to attract
potential clients to their sites. It will probably take 2 to 5 years before
Flash is finally gone.

There is a general trend in the developer's community to not embrace a
closed standard, as if history is any indication, a person's career can be
jeopardized when a company decides to no longer support one of their
products and huge costs are incurred buying into a new closed technology,
starting with huge time waste, as well as poorer products, until sufficient
skill-sets have been obtained. 

MS Access comes to mind. Long live Open Source standards.
         
Jim
 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 8:56 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Linux and Firefox

I get some pretty strange messages on my android tablet. One app, IIRC
Flash, would not download to my iPad because Apple does not support it. Nice
slap in the face Adobe. First inferring that _I_ bought an iPad and second
suggesting that Apple has anything to say about Android.

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 8:44 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Linux and Firefox

Hi Mark:

That happens more frequently than you would guess. Many of my sites will not
run on IE as the clients are unwilling to pay the extra dollars for the
extra coding necessary. It has not been until recently, that IE (IE9), has
supported HTML5 or CSS3. Some web programmer did the reverse and built the
site only for IE.

You could try the Linux Chrome browser, Chromium and see if you have better
luck.

Jim
  

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Breen
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 1:28 AM
To: Discussion concerning MS SQL Server; Discussion of Hardware and Software
issues
Subject: [dba-Tech] Linux and Firefox

Hello All,

Hope you do not mind me changing the subject on this discussion.

Francisco mentions below that he uses Firefox on Linux.  Over the weekend, I
tried to book online for Dublin Airport car park using Linux and FF.
 However, the site informed me that they do not currently support this phone
browser and to try a regular PC.

Well I guess I can understand what caused that wrong message, but I was
disappointed that I had to go upstairs to my windows machine.

To gently tease the kids, I also took a printscreen of their old Windows
desktop and set it as the desktop on the  linux installation.  Their heads
were messed up because they could see the Windows icons, but still they were
on linux :)

Mark


On 19 September 2011 00:09, Francisco Tapia <fhtapia at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Another thing you can attempt is to setup a Linux virtual machine 
> that would prevent hackers from reaching your personal data directly.
> I really won't surf the net on Internet explorer (any version). I only 
> use Firefox with noscript and on a Linux machine helps to obfuscate as 
> much direct contact as possible...
>
> Sent from my mobile
>
>
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