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    Are You Prepared for a World Without Flash

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    • mlnewsM
      mlnews
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      InfoWorld looks into The Countdown to a World without Flash.

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        I'm definitely ready. Been over a year now that I have been living Flash free. Now that YouTube has HTML5 support, there isn't much of import with Flash only.

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        • ?
          A Former User
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          There's a lot that still needs flash.

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          • MattSpellerM
            MattSpeller @A Former User
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            @thecreativeone91 said:

            There's a lot that still needs flash.

            Lots of one off custom apps for business that I can think of

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              A Former User @MattSpeller
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              @MattSpeller said:

              @thecreativeone91 said:

              There's a lot that still needs flash.

              Lots of one off custom apps for business that I can think of

              Yep. We've had talks of blocking flash all together on our network (even on guest) with the firewall and our AV too. but, right now we just can't. We're going to start locking it down more though.

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                technobabble
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                I have been able to get most of my clients off of Java, but not installing Flash causes too many tickets, mostly from the client installing from rogue sources!

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                • DashrenderD
                  Dashrender
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                  We sadly still have an internal app that I think only uses it for something on the start up page, but otherwise doesn't. Getting rid of Flash would mean constant nags to the user about installing flash, even though it's not needed for the site.

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                    A Former User @technobabble
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                    @technobabble said:

                    I have been able to get most of my clients off of Java, but not installing Flash causes too many tickets, mostly from the client installing from rogue sources!

                    Why do they have admin rights?

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                      @Dashrender said:

                      We sadly still have an internal app that I think only uses it for something on the start up page, but otherwise doesn't. Getting rid of Flash would mean constant nags to the user about installing flash, even though it's not needed for the site.

                      Seems like a few minutes of effort would fix that.

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                      • DashrenderD
                        Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                        @scottalanmiller said:

                        @Dashrender said:

                        We sadly still have an internal app that I think only uses it for something on the start up page, but otherwise doesn't. Getting rid of Flash would mean constant nags to the user about installing flash, even though it's not needed for the site.

                        Seems like a few minutes of effort would fix that.

                        oh? I'll admit I know next to nothing about programming webpages. It might be a few mins for you, but days or more for me.

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                          A Former User @Dashrender
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                          @Dashrender said:

                          @scottalanmiller said:

                          @Dashrender said:

                          We sadly still have an internal app that I think only uses it for something on the start up page, but otherwise doesn't. Getting rid of Flash would mean constant nags to the user about installing flash, even though it's not needed for the site.

                          Seems like a few minutes of effort would fix that.

                          oh? I'll admit I know next to nothing about programming webpages. It might be a few mins for you, but days or more for me.

                          Just remove the code that's embedding the flash or redirect it to another page so there is no start page.

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                          • scottalanmillerS
                            scottalanmiller
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                            XML is very straightforward. There is no programming involved (unless your site is completely dynamically generated.) It's just markup. So like editing a CSV or a Word document manually. Just look for the line and delete. I have to edit XML by hand so often for so many different things, how do you avoid that?

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                            • DashrenderD
                              Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                              @scottalanmiller said:

                              XML is very straightforward. There is no programming involved (unless your site is completely dynamically generated.) It's just markup. So like editing a CSV or a Word document manually. Just look for the line and delete. I have to edit XML by hand so often for so many different things, how do you avoid that?

                              Because I don't manage any websites except our Wiki.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                                @Dashrender said:

                                @scottalanmiller said:

                                XML is very straightforward. There is no programming involved (unless your site is completely dynamically generated.) It's just markup. So like editing a CSV or a Word document manually. Just look for the line and delete. I have to edit XML by hand so often for so many different things, how do you avoid that?

                                Because I don't manage any websites except our Wiki.

                                I said XML, it's used broadly outside of web pages. I didn't suggest that you would know how to modify the website because you have lots of websites, just because XML editing is such a common task for so many things. Many applications require it, for example.

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                                • DashrenderD
                                  Dashrender
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                                  Either my situation is really rare, or SMBs don't have to deal with it that much.

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                                  • ?
                                    A Former User
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                                    I've always had to deal with XML Configs. a lot.

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                                    • DashrenderD
                                      Dashrender @A Former User
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                                      @thecreativeone91 said:

                                      I've always had to deal with XML Configs. a lot.

                                      You also work for a HUGE company!

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                                        A Former User @Dashrender
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                                        @Dashrender said:

                                        @thecreativeone91 said:

                                        I've always had to deal with XML Configs. a lot.

                                        You also work for a HUGE company!

                                        Now. But I haven't always. I worked for government localities with under 300 employees before.

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                                        • scottalanmillerS
                                          scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                                          @Dashrender said:

                                          Either my situation is really rare, or SMBs don't have to deal with it that much.

                                          I've had to deal with it everywhere since XML came out in the early 2000s. It's so common. Been working with it all this week.

                                          Do you use a lot of JSON or YAML instead?

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                                            @Dashrender said:

                                            @thecreativeone91 said:

                                            I've always had to deal with XML Configs. a lot.

                                            You also work for a HUGE company!

                                            This really is not a factor. If anything I would think that it was the opposite since XML is old now and generally not favoured but retained by Microsoft more than most major vendors and modern app design tends to use YAML or JSON.

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