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Re:Adobe Air surpasses 100 Million installations by pj on Thursday January 29, 2009 @12:29PM (#456711)
The holistic view is exactly why Adobe Air is bad.

It's not standard and it limits accessibility.

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Re:Adobe Air surpasses 100 Million installations by ThomPete on Friday January 30, 2009 @03:22AM (#457876)
So does Firefox plugins, I don't see anyone leeching out against that. It's a weird puritan view.

Flash is as standard as you can get and air is just an extension off that allowing you to do more stuff off line.

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Re:Adobe Air surpasses 100 Million installations by pj on Friday January 30, 2009 @12:08PM (#458314)
Flash is not as standard as you can get.

The web standards are HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Flash is neither of those. The specification is not controlled by a governing body. It is controlled by one company.

Talking about Firefox plugins is straw man, has nothing to do with this conversation and I don't know any websites that require a Firefox plugin to work correctly. If they exist, I don't use them.

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Re:Adobe Air surpasses 100 Million installations by ThomPete on Friday January 30, 2009 @09:49PM (#459153)
saying that flash is not a de facto standard is surely missing the big picture on this. Sorry but what would you call the standard for showing video if not flash? What would you call the standard for doing animation or another other sort of rich manipulation.

Just because it's not open does not mean that it's not a standard.

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