Mark Breen
marklbreen at gmail.com
Mon Sep 19 17:46:58 CDT 2011
Hi Jim, Not sure what you mean by >MS Access comes to mind. Long live Open Source standards. do you mean that Access is slowing dying ? have I missed an elephant in the room? thanks Mark On 19 September 2011 21:22, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >