[NTLUG:Discuss] Another worry for net users

[Steve Baker]

Ralph Green wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 08:58 -0700, Fred wrote:
>   
>> to see what flash cookies are stored in your computer and for their 
>> administration. It is a good tool.
>> If you are running Windows I do not know how to prevent flash cookies from being 
>> stored. Maybe 
>>
>>
>> use Firefox and install the Flashblock add-on. 
>>     
> Howdy,
>   There is a 100 percent reliable way to prevent flash cookies.  Don't
> install Flash.   The dancing boloney is really not worth it, anyway.  I
> have demonstrated how to view youtube without Flash, so that is no
> reason.  Adobe's products are insecure and the licenses are not
> reasonable.  I have heard Adobe employees brag about how their products
> make users systems insecure.  They sell this as a feature.
> Ralph
>   
Also: We are soon to enter an era where you can get "the dancing
boloney" without flash - with the existing HTML5 <canvas> stuff - and
the soon-to-be-released WebGL feature (which is already in daily builds
of Firefox, Chrome and Safari - also due to appear in Opera soon) -
there is little remaining need for flash for new applications.

Since WebGL is to be well supported on iPad, iPhone4, Android and is
already shipping on Nokia N900 - it'll beat out flash in the mobile
market.  There are no plugins, just native browser stuff based around
the OpenGL-ES 2.0 standard - but also able to run transparently on top
of OpenGL *or* DirectX.  It's also OpenSourced (as a part of WebKit) and
the standard has been developed by the community.

This technology allows full-blown 3D graphics games to run in a browser,
portably across OS's and on hardware from PC's to phones.  It truly
makes flash look old & tired.

I believe that the days of the dominance of flash are numbered.

  -- Steve