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16 February, 2012 Wil

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in which my wife is nerd-adjacent and comedy ensues → ← this is clever, cute, entertaining, and has the potential to be awesome

23 thoughts on “Shockwave Flash on my Macintosh”

  1. Tamouse says:
    16 February, 2012 at 7:23 pm

    I wonder if Allie Brosh is doing any better….

  2. Wil says:
    16 February, 2012 at 7:24 pm

    Wait. What? She's not doing well?

  3. Braindonkey says:
    16 February, 2012 at 7:24 pm

    And that’s why it’s ying and going away. Flash = turd

  4. Cam_neil says:
    16 February, 2012 at 7:25 pm

    Maybe Tamouse was referring to the bit of depression she ran into a while back?
    http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-depression.html

  5. Angie Mansfield says:
    16 February, 2012 at 7:29 pm

    That’s what I was thinking, too. And she hasn’t posted anything since then, which is worrying. :-/

  6. Trickycoolj says:
    16 February, 2012 at 7:44 pm

    She also mentioned in the prior post she’s working on a book and updates would be sparse. Hopefully that’s the only thing, because I very much want to support her efforts!

  7. Angie Mansfield says:
    16 February, 2012 at 7:49 pm

    That’s true. Hopefully she’s just really busy with the book.

  8. Ncbarnard says:
    16 February, 2012 at 8:33 pm

    Agreed Flash is such a turd on the Mac, especially when you hit a page with 5 or 10 different flash files on it. Adobe never really wanted to support the mac.
    Thus why I use the ClickToFlash in Safari:
    http://hoyois.github.com/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/
    It blocks flash, but also allows you to whitelist certain sites. Plus it awesomely replaces flash videos with nonflash versions.
    Once I started using that I was amazed the stuff that people used flash for which they should use animated PNGs or even GIFs.

  9. novelgazer says:
    16 February, 2012 at 8:45 pm

    It’s amazing how embeddable video turned Flash from universally-hated, resourcing-hogging, security vulnerability into indispensable universally-hated, resource-hogging, security vulnerability.

  10. Wil says:
    16 February, 2012 at 9:11 pm

    +1

  11. Quanterium says:
    16 February, 2012 at 9:35 pm

    I second the recommendation of ClickToFlash. I still use a few PowerPC Macs, and even on the G5, Flash-based videos are pretty much unwatchable. The same videos work quite well when ClickToFlash replaces them with the non-Flash versions.

  12. Chris Johnson says:
    16 February, 2012 at 9:41 pm

    If you think running Flash is bad, try writing something for it. Actual error message that popped up at work about a year ago:
    http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzivprZYOn1qmmnt4o1_500.jpg
    Feel free to repost/tweet! I got a good laugh out of it at the time.

  13. Nunojsilva.wordpress.com says:
    17 February, 2012 at 1:15 am

    The sad thing is how the very same thing could have been achieved by setting a multimedia container and companion audio and video codecs as “standard” for video distribution over the web, using the good old OBJECT tag. And some people actually see Adobe Flash as an improvement over OBJECT for video. Kind of reminds Homer in The Simpsons: Movie picking glue to climb the dome (there were jet packs and suction cups, too).
    It’s slow, it’s considered one of the most vulnerable pieces of software and it is not widely supported (Windows and a couple Unices over a couple CPU arches?).
    But, as always, it’s vendor lock-in, if you for some reason need to get a faithful representation of the content, you have to use the Adobe version. As Flash is so overused, blocking by default and whitelisting is a good solution; there is also Lightspark which aims at providing a faster implementation of AVM2 (newer flash files — can be used with gnash to support AVM1 too).

  14. Steve Bartlett says:
    17 February, 2012 at 5:40 am

    I hope so too. I really miss her alot. And the rest of her drawings, too.

  15. Nunojsilva.wordpress.com says:
    17 February, 2012 at 6:09 am

    I should have checked it before I spoke: Lightspark isn’t actually available for Mac OS, although gnash can be built for Mac OS. A thousand apologies.

  16. Wayne Zombie says:
    17 February, 2012 at 8:33 am

    I don’t mind Flash video in that I can choose not to watch them. I REALLY hate Flash site navigation! The best restaurant in Southern NM (and it’s excellent by any standard) has Flash-only, they don’t have an HTML fallback, so if you view it on an iOS device it looks like the site is crashed.

  17. MarkSchneider says:
    17 February, 2012 at 9:06 am

    A part of me wonders if this is all Adobe’s fault or not. Flash did trump a little thing called Quicktime by Apple as the de facto way to play videos. Part of me wonders if Flash has so many problems on Apple because Apple doesn’t want to see it succeed? Of course Flash has problems all around – Windows and Android’s Flash have problems too, plus it seems there are updates ever other week, so I get the feeling that such is not the case.

  18. Shayde says:
    17 February, 2012 at 9:21 am

    Yeah, but like all competition, it made QT much better in the long run and now it is far superior to anything flash.
    I just hate how many sites use it when they have needed information on their sites, like addresses that you want to copy-paste into maps or something else. Too many restaurant sites and other places do that.
    Flash for the sake of flash is just dumb.

  19. MarkSchneider says:
    17 February, 2012 at 9:42 am

    Agreed on the “Flash for the sake of flash is just dumb.” I had a customer a few years back who came in and wanted a Flash Website. I asked what they wanted it to do, to which the replied they didn’t know, but they knew it had to have flash.
    HTML 5 is suppose to replace Flash/QT for video playback, however HTML 5 is still being defined, and you can’t expect everybody to have support for it. Plus ever browser can render HTML a bit differently. Flash looks the same across the board.
    Sad fact is that even with all its problems, Flash will still give you the best chance of getting something to the most people at the lowest cost, and when developing a web presence, that is usually what people want.

  20. Shayde says:
    17 February, 2012 at 9:56 am

    Yeah, but thankfully HTML5 will finally put flash out to pasture. Just going to take more time than Steve Jobs thought.

  21. Kentucky Packrat says:
    17 February, 2012 at 11:25 am

    Number one tool to use for Macs: ClickToPlugin ( http://hoyois.github.com/safariextensions/clicktoplugin/ ). Makes you have big white boxes instead of Flash code, but it keeps the CPUs from trying to melt their way out of the case. Even better, for YouTube and a bunch of other places, it will auto-replace the Flash version with the HTML5 version.

  22. Angie Mansfield says:
    17 February, 2012 at 4:39 pm

    Dear Wil,
    You know how the Bloggess made you that kick-ass picture of Juanita the Weasel yelling ‘KHAAAAAN’? Well, she gave her readers a Juanita blank to make our own hilarity, and…well, after your Flash frustration last night, I spent a whole five of my seconds to make this for you: http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd134/mymotherwasahamster/FLASH.jpg
    You’re welcome.

  23. Angie Mansfield says:
    17 February, 2012 at 5:02 pm

    Also, this one. But it has nothing to do with Flash. And I promise I’ll stop posting these now. 😉
    http://pinterest.com/pin/220746819205218716/

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