Alternative to Flash?

[JPnyc]

Has nothing to do with Flash ads, it's just that I keep activeX disabled until I come across a site where I really need it (like online virus scans), and IE or the IE shell I use, can't load flash without it.

But regarding all-flash sites, those I refuse to use. I use mouse gestures for most everything, and they don't work in Flash. Neither do most of the 8 buttons on my mouse. The back button does nothing, forward, etc. You can't copy text and it takes too long to load. Beyond that, no matter WHAT they tell you, adopey is downloading something other than the flash player when you DL that. I saw a yahoo something or other even though I had unchecked it before DLing.

I just despise flash as a technology. It's not HTML/CSS, it doesn't run in your browser. It obeys none of the rules of a webpage.

[JPnyc]

Oh, and password managers don't work, and the regular windows dropdown of stored info won't work with flash text boxes either. So many things don't work that it's quite easy for me to dislike it.

[maxximilian]

Your reasons are legitimate....but your resolution (and that of some others) to sort of pretend that those sites don't exist has me a bit confused. Seems you are missing out on a lot of the net experience because you won't know it's even there. As I say....sites are going Flash for displaying multimedia content now. I think even some of the news sites are using it now in place of of standard media players.

I always download the latest player....and they do try to push a toolbar or some other plug-in on you...but so far it has always obeyed my selection to take nothing but the player.

Well...to each his own I guess. I was just curious.....

[JPnyc]

I have my browser setup so that a quick L/R click will open firefox with the current page loaded. Firefox doesn't use activeX so it can load the flash player without it, when there's something I really wanna see.

[maxximilian]

I heard Hillary say that when she becomes president.....Flash will be mandatory on all computers......

[Crimson Blonde]

lmao Maxx ... you trying to make JP have a coronary?

[JPnyc]

Won't affect me. I'll be living in the UK at that time.

[maxximilian]

She also plans to ban javascript......

Something about second-hand script causing cancer in non-javascript users.....

[JPnyc]

Unless she can convince Tony's successor as PM to do the same, I'm not worried.