Thoughts on Java and Flash?
In my opinion, these two buggy, broken platforms, NEED to go.
I mean, come on! Java is ridiculously unstable and insecure. The runtime is found to have vulnerabilities ALL THE TIME. Not to mention that Yahoo! crap that they shove down your throat. Imagine the thousands of end lusers who download it to run some shit and then end up fucking up their computer. It is a huge pain in the ass to troubleshoot. Too many programs still require it. Part of this anger comes from the fact that I (accidentally) downloaded Java (because it was bundled with a command-line tool) and guess what? My homepage changed to Yahoo! Obviously, I removed the Yahoo shitware and Java. If only.
3 days later, I find my PC BSODing every 10-20 minutes. Why? Because this Java applet FUCKED WITH THE REGISTRY. It was some kind of command-line tool. Why the hell did they write it in Java? Why not write this in C# or C++?
And then there's "Flash". It makes the web horrible. Like Java, it's insecure as hell. Honestly, the web devs who make stuff in flash need to migrate to HTML5. My Core 2 Quad machine w/GTX 950 stutters due to those FLASH ADs. I'm was using MS Edge, and the lack of uBlock and Flashblock has made me temporarily migrate to Firefox. Thank God HTML5 is gaining ground. Pages that use Flash, honestly, need to get the fuck off the internet.
Damn it, Oracle and Adobe! Why the hell do you continue to promote these obsolete platforms?
I mean, come on! Java is ridiculously unstable and insecure. The runtime is found to have vulnerabilities ALL THE TIME. Not to mention that Yahoo! crap that they shove down your throat. Imagine the thousands of end lusers who download it to run some shit and then end up fucking up their computer. It is a huge pain in the ass to troubleshoot. Too many programs still require it. Part of this anger comes from the fact that I (accidentally) downloaded Java (because it was bundled with a command-line tool) and guess what? My homepage changed to Yahoo! Obviously, I removed the Yahoo shitware and Java. If only.
3 days later, I find my PC BSODing every 10-20 minutes. Why? Because this Java applet FUCKED WITH THE REGISTRY. It was some kind of command-line tool. Why the hell did they write it in Java? Why not write this in C# or C++?
And then there's "Flash". It makes the web horrible. Like Java, it's insecure as hell. Honestly, the web devs who make stuff in flash need to migrate to HTML5. My Core 2 Quad machine w/GTX 950 stutters due to those FLASH ADs. I'm was using MS Edge, and the lack of uBlock and Flashblock has made me temporarily migrate to Firefox. Thank God HTML5 is gaining ground. Pages that use Flash, honestly, need to get the fuck off the internet.
Damn it, Oracle and Adobe! Why the hell do you continue to promote these obsolete platforms?
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And bundling crapware or malware should simply be against the law. Why it isn't, only money can explain...
Honestly, I don't bother using either of these platforms. Youtube works fine with the html5 video stuff. And all you really need is adblocker and a good browser.
I will definitely be happy to see flash and java go the way of the dodo.
Ironically, I received a Java update whilst on this thread... lols.
This, just THIS. Even though it only occurred for this laptop until I flushed them all away recently.
Granted Flash has seen better days it is still better then embedding Windows media player into a webpage like it was in the 90s.
https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/entry/moving_to_a_plugin_free
It looks like Oracle read my rant, and finally fixed it (somewhat). Now devs who half-assed it and used Java on the web are now going to suffer payback.
Too bad Java is still too common in desktop applications. This is a baby step in the right direction, though!
I used to work with a nice win32 desktop database system with a fairly flexible user interface, but they discontinued that in favor of a browser embedded java application. A web browser is complete shit for data entry. With or without java.
Flash? The only thing it was good for was playing Youtube videos. And I'd still have preferred to just click a link to open my video in my choice of external media player.
Anyone remember how Microsoft tried to make people use their Remote Desktop Client using web page with the RDP program simply embedded as an OCX control? With fewer options than using the proper desktop interface. And of course it didn't use HTTP so if you were behind a proxy it wouldn't work even though it looked like "oh its on teh webb!1!".
Although most "HTML 5" doesn't belong in a web page.
Also, VMware uses a Flash abomination for vCenter.
HTML5 is a standard now.