I went to the BBC News site to watch the Vint Cerf ‘digital Dark Age’ interview, but all I got was:
The really frustrating part, the mobile version of their site plays the video on my iPhone just fine ( which definitely isn’t using Flash ). The ‘digital dark age’ is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed.
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One of my 2015 resolution was to disable Flash in my browsers…. and I have to say it’s a very sad experience. Steve Jobs wanted Flash dead years ago and even though I have to agree that Flash is sub-optimal, it’s clear today that it’s still a very widely used solution.
As much as it pains me to accept it, Flash is still the only way to do a lot of things (like Copy/Paste in a single button click for example…) and I wish the “web platform” folks would focus a bit less on “video” and more on the general idea that the web needs to provide compleling solutions to what Flash solves!
I agree with the general approach: provide methods to implement the features that currently require Flash.
For the specific category of video, I consider this done. For generally available videos like this I really see no reason to use Flash.