Well, as it turns out, the library that I chose requires Flash. These libraries allow you to just say, “Here’s the video and play it here and make it this big, “ and they provide you with a nice player and the play button and the pause button and all that kind of thing.
ISWIFF SAYS I NEED FLASH CODE
What typically happens, and is what happened in my case, is that I ended up using a library of code that makes putting video on web pages easier rather than having to write a bunch of supporting HTML and JavaScript and a bunch of other stuff. And to be clear, it’s not that I made a conscious decision to use Flash it’s not like most webmasters decide to use Flash specifically. I plan to do that that’s not an issue for me. I actually have to touch every page that holds the video and make some changes to use a different approach that will allow the video to be played using HTML5 assumptions rather than using Flash. Whoops! So, the problem here of course is that’s going to work on my part to go through and fix. Videos that can either be downloaded (which of course is not affected by any of this) or can be played directly on the web page, which is.Īs it turns out, the video player that I’m using right now requires Flash.
When you purchase a book, you have an opportunity to register and get an account on where you can access bonus material, and much of that material, in fact most of that bonus material usually takes the form of videos. Unfortunately, that’s not true for a couple of my other sites specifically, the Members Only site that contains the videos that accompany your purchase of many of my Ask Leo! books.
Now, fortunately I was able to make a simple change to the plug-in that I use to provide that functionality on each page so it was a quick change and all of the players now are HTML5 compatible, and they just work there. The problem is this – until yesterday the audio player on that I use at the bottom of all current articles to play the podcast version, the audio version of each article turned out to require Flash. Now, I am slightly embarrassed to say that I turn out to be one, or actually two or three of those millions of sites. They will continue to use and require Flash. The problem, on the other hand, is that many of them will not be updated. Now, many of those millions of sites, of course, they’re going to get updated. So, here’s the problem though – websites need to be updated to take advantage of HTML5.
ISWIFF SAYS I NEED FLASH INSTALL
It’s just already, all that stuff is built in without needing to install an additional plug-in or add-on like Flash. It’s been out for several years now, and HTML5 is supported by all current, major browsers. As it turns out, 99% of what Flash is used for, basically video and audio and multimedia on web pages is actually part of the HTML5 spec. Now, some of these millions of sites are going to update. So, uninstalling it might end up making you safer, in fact it will end up making you safer, because you won’t be vulnerable to any Flash exploits no matter how many that might come up.īut, you know, you’ll also encounter websites and web services that will stop working for you because they require Flash. As we’ll see in a moment, some website owners, myself included, might not even know it. The problem, of course, is that I figure it’s probably used one way or another on perhaps millions of websites. It’s really, really old code in its underpinnings.
Flash has been around for a really, really long time and in fact that’s one of the problems one of the things that leads up to our current situation with Flash. You know, it’s rarely that things would work out to be that simple. I think they were formally calling on Adobe to declare an end of life for Flash.Īnd of course, many security experts are encouraging people to uninstall it completely and just stop using it. Now, several folks, including Facebook’s own director of security are now calling for Flash to be formally discontinued. Flash has had many problems over the years. Zero-day, of course, means that the problem, the vulnerability, the bug has been found actually being exploited in the wild, meaning that there’s technically zero days to fix it before people are safe. There have been several zero-day vulnerabilities that have been discovered and in most case quickly repaired. You know, Adobe Flash has come under a lot of heat this last week.
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