I’m really enjoying this plugin, I hope you will too. Importantly it’s designed to allow sIFR images to load automatically, replace youtube videos with their H.264 equivalent played in quicktime where possible and allows whitelisting of sites where you always want flash to load. So download, install and get back to browsing the internet quickly and efficiently, only seeing flash where you want to. So no more annoying ads, preloading videos, Flash basically, which as I am sure you all appreciate is now a bigger preverbal pain in the butt since it was relegated to a sandboxed status is Snow Tabby. Which you just click when you want to view the flash file in question. Replacing flash files with this nifty clean-looking replacement image: Click to Flash Replacement Image But if you prefer the cleaner interface of Safari 4 (as I do) you needn’t miss out from some of these essential improvements to your browsing experience, the most important of which (in MHO) is Click to Flash, your own flash blocker.Ĭlick to Flash is the wunderbar creation of Jonathan ‘Wolf’ Rentzsch of Chicago it’s basic job is to prevent flash from loading until you want it to. We all love browser plugins, it’s one of the reasons that Firefox is so darn popular. Youtube – iPad, iPhone optimised sites HTML 5 experiment for everyone else!Īdd anymore sites you know in the comments and I’ll update the list. Wall Street Journal – iPad Optimised Site + iPad App (download here)īrightcove – Supplier for sites like Wired, Slate, Time & NYT so expect to see them go over soon too! TED – Completely Flash-Free version of their website (see here and the official announcement via twitter here) The Guardian – tsmarsh informs me they use Brightcove so hope they’ll follow suit? Virgin America – Flash Gone Bye Bye! (see here, here and the official statement here)ĪBC – Official iPad App (see here, download here)ĬBS – Reports coming in ( here and here) of Flash-free video for the iPad So I thought it would be more interesting to give you a flash death watch tracking the number of sites abandoning flash: I’ve been meaning to write an article on the death of flash for quite some time now, I’ve abandoned a number of drafts as the deluge of articles have hit the interwebs on the same topic. This in turn can invoke a concern around whether or not “i’m losing customers to flash install prompts” more than before (maybe and a very strong maybe, 1% decline as a result). As you can’t go 20mins online without being prompted to install Flash and given Windows 7 is fast replenishing the market, this in turn can cause concern for high-end websites that have a sudden surge in abandonment rates for Flash based experience. I’d argue Adobe’s actual ubiquity lies in web saturation and not client saturation. I think devices will also disrupt this further given battery concerns etc are a real PR hurdle for Adobe to overcome. I think whats explaining the drop is less OEM deals are being made and I think there may very well be a decline in mainstream Flash development itself (retreating back to HTML?). ![]() Given then if you look deeper at the methodology it also looks a bit off, for example the add double the weighting to USA compared to countries like China – given 380million or so citizens live in the US compared to ASIA having close to that in one country seems a little off in terms of the math. Take into account there is 1.4billion people on the planet online today and according to Forester research it will take 7 years from 2008 to 2015 to grow to 2billion, i don’t know the numbers just seem quite off to hold that 95%+ ubiquity stance. Now, assuming Adobe methodology is still being validated by them, that’s approx 8-18million installs per day. The install number wasn’t ever intended to be a marketing point, although it was an exciting number for us to talk about when we realized that our install average was 8 million a day shortly after Flash Player 9 first launched. The user might say “no thanks” to the security warning dialog, and refreshing the page or visiting another page that requires a newer version may download the installer again. That seems like a big drop, but consider that ActiveX was about 80% of our installs that month and when you visit a page that triggers the ActiveX install experience the installer is downloaded to the machine before the security warning dialog appears. In July 2008, successful downloads averaged about 33 million per day, and successful installs averaged around 18 million per day. We’ve never said how many downloads happen a day because it is a ridiculously large number AND we know that it’s not that useful metric because those successful downloads don’t all turn into successful installations. ![]() ’s interesting to note that for Adobe, the number that is quoted is an “install” and not a “download” number. ![]() Check this post out form Emmy Huang Product Manager for Flash / Adobe
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