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Posted by Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn on June 9, 2008, 7:04 pm
Please log in for more thread options Pierre Jelenc wrote:
>> On Tue, 13 May 2008 14:08:30 -0700 (PDT), Steve Pugh
>>>> What is the best way to deal with a user whose PC browser does not
>>>> have Flash installed?
>>> One or both of:
>>>
>>> Include a polite message pointing out that to hear your sounds they
>>> should install and/or enable Flash and enable JavaScript.
>>>
>>> Link to the MP3 files so that they can play them in the player of
>>> their choice
>>> [...]
>> Thanks Steve - I guess the first option!
>
> Why? My mp3 player is much better than anything Flash comes up with. Why
> would you want me to use an inferior product?
Good point.
> Or to enable a dangerous scripting language?
Please stop distributing FUD. Client-side scripting is not any more
dangerous than the security leaks in the environment it runs in are. For
example, if JScript poses a danger in IE/MSHTML, it is MSHTML's fault which
provides the necessary API, particularly IE's borken insufficient security
model, not JScript's.
F'up2 cljs
PointedEars
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