“Occupy Flash is a movement started by a small handful of independent Web developers who want to end the reign of Adobe’s Flash Player plug-in in Web browsers,” David Goldman reports for CNN.
“Among the movement’s complaints are that Flash is ‘buggy,’ ‘crashes a lot,’ ‘requires constant security updates,’ and ‘doesn’t work on most mobile devices,'” Goldman reports. “Occupy Flash says that the plug-in’s time has passed, and that HTML5 ‘has clearly won the fight for the future of our web browsing.'”
Goldman reports, “To wipe out Flash, Occupy Flash proposes that everyone disable or uninstall the plug-in from their browsers… The website provides links and instructions to help Web users to get rid of the Flash Player from their browsers.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: “Flash must die.” – MacDailyNews, February 5, 2010
Welcome aboard!
(But please use the Porta-Potties and don’t talk to any media unless you’re coherent.)
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “plastikm” for the heads up.]