Re:“Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”
by angus-prune on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @07:38AM
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But with flash being deprecated across pretty much every browser and EoL by Adobe, they can't really leave it alone.
Re:“Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”
by userbinator on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @08:23PM
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Of course they can. Flash isn't a cloud service. All "deprecated" and "EoL" means is that Adobe isn't going to change the product or provide support. Google could do the same. It will keep working the way it has always worked. There's millions if not more sites out there still with Flash content. I have a collection of SWFs (mostly games) and they still work too.
The "this technology is old/deprecated/EoL/unfashionable/etc., let's just delete it all and provide no equivalent replacement, nevermind the fact that it's been working well" attitude is what really pisses off users, including me. Also somewhat like me, they don't really care what technology is as long as it works --- all they see is something which used to work is now broken and they can't do anything about it.
IMHO if they can't change things without removing functionality, they should just leave well enough alone. They don't have to "support" the old version or do anything special with it; just leave it alone in its current, working, state.