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Re:"Occupy Flash" campaign urges users to uninstall Adobe Fl... by SquareWheel on Friday November 18, 2011 @11:33AM (#3252280)
This is a silly movement. Flash isn't going anywhere, and there's no reason for it to. "HTML5" isn't finalized, well supported, and is (in my experience) almost always slower than the equivalent Flash code. Flash is supposedly bringing fullscreen support and right-click functionality too, one of my biggest gripes with the technology.

I support open source, I want HTML5 to replace Flash, but we're not nearly there yet. Wait for the technology to mature.

Re:"Occupy Flash" campaign urges users to uninstall Adobe Fl... by grrrrrrrrr on Friday November 18, 2011 @12:03PM (#3252399)
'Occupy' is taken. What's more, it's taken by people fighting a fight that is not unimportant, banal dribblings.
Re:"Occupy Flash" campaign urges users to uninstall Adobe Fl... by seanalltogether on Friday November 18, 2011 @12:26PM (#3252503)
"Flash...is holding the web back". If anything, the Flash plugin has been helping to provide the roadmap for new html features for the past 5 years.
Re:"Occupy Flash" campaign urges users to uninstall Adobe Fl... by mzahir on Friday November 18, 2011 @11:42AM (#3252317)
Shouldn't this be named "Unoccupy Flash" or just "Uninstall Flash"? It seems silly to use "Occupy" in this context.
Re:"Occupy Flash" campaign urges users to uninstall Adobe Fl... by untog on Friday November 18, 2011 @11:58AM (#3252383)
This 'occupy' meme needs to die.

Also, like it or not, HTML5 is not yet ready to replace Flash (both in the technologies it makes available and the level of adoption). Let's get there first.

Re:"Occupy Flash" campaign urges users to uninstall Adobe Fl... by ebrenes on Friday November 18, 2011 @12:16PM (#3252453)
And now there's also an Occupy HTML movement, granted a bit more level-headed in their approach.

http://occupyhtml.org/

Re:"Occupy Flash" campaign urges users to uninstall Adobe Fl... by vertr on Friday November 18, 2011 @12:35PM (#3252546)
And they stole the occupyflash design and adapted it for their alternative cause. I can't help but wonder if one of these pages is a joke?
Re:"Occupy Flash" campaign urges users to uninstall Adobe Fl... by pan69 on Friday November 18, 2011 @06:23PM (#3253970)
A sad initiative by a bunch of sad people hating for the sake of hating.
Re:"Occupy Flash" campaign urges users to uninstall Adobe Fl... by bootz15 on Friday November 18, 2011 @03:15PM (#3253211)
If I occupy it, shouldn't I install it? I'm confused..
Re:"Occupy Flash" campaign urges users to uninstall Adobe Fl... by whatever_dude on Friday November 18, 2011 @07:13PM (#3254087)
Wonder why they're anonymous.
Re:"Occupy Flash" campaign urges users to uninstall Adobe Fl... by rsanchez1 on Friday November 18, 2011 @11:49AM (#3252340)
How Occupy Wall Street and Flash are related is beyond me. Seems to me this group is over-zealous in their crusade to eliminate Flash, their near-religious devotion clouding their judgement.