Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date Date: 30 Sep 2016 21:21:07 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: <2016093010092482151-xxx@yyyzzz> <2016093013565669017-xxx@yyyzzz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net uc7VELhx4P1V4mse3VUTbwV7SOoZ3JxB8SvFgGlRu/RIjqu8h4 Cancel-Lock: sha1:v/diXvNrE0tgB8qC7xqsID84mes= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:95009 On 2016-09-30, gtr wrote: > On 2016-09-30 18:01:31 +0000, Jolly Roger said: > >> On 2016-09-30, gtr wrote: >>> I attempt to do streaming of one kind or other in Safari, for instance >>> this one: >>> >>> http://abcnews.go.com/Live?stream=7&cid=HP_LB_THUMB >>> >>> And get a complaint that I must have Flash Player version 10.2.0 or >>> greater. I currently have 23.0.0.162 installed. When I pop the same >>> url into Firefox there is complaint. >>> >>> Any ideas on how to correct this? >> >> It's a lie. You don't need Flash installed at all. From the Safari menu >> bar, choose Develop > User Agent > Safari — iOS — iPad, and like magic >> the videos will play. (If you don't see the Develop menu, go to Safari >> Preferences > Advanced and enable "Show Develop menu in the menu bar" >> first.) Some web sites stupidly assume that if you are browsing on a >> desktop operating system like macOS, Linux, or Windows, you can run >> Flash and blindly serve up Flash-based content. Yet those same web sites >> will happily serve up HTML5 video content instead if they detect you are >> browsing from a mobile operating system, since Flash doesn't run on most >> mobile devices. You can blame the person who authored the web site for >> this, since there's technically no reason they can't just use HTML5 in >> all cases. > > Cool! Many thanks for in interesting solution! No prob. I've removed Flash from all of my systems for some time now and don't miss it at all. Good riddance! Highly recommended. : ) -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR