Flash Player 10.1 (10,1,53,64) Crashes When Accessing Webcam ?

Today Adobe has released the must awaited Flash player 10.1.  But it seems there are still some issues with the new flash player.

Flash player 10.1 crashes when accessing web cam. I have tested by installing the new flash player 10.1 and reinstalling Flash player 10. It works correctly with Flash player 10 and below. Some of the sites on the Internet explain that Flash player is causing problems with  A/V Web cams only.  Although i have logged a bug report in the Adobe  JIRA Issue management system, it will help if any one else can confirm facing such an issue. (more…)

“Apple Not Educated About HTML5, Misguiding Users” – Claim Opera & Mozilla

Apple had recently launched its HTML5 showcase , touting how the world didn’t need flash anymore.  The first backfire was when users complained that they could not see anything, using other standard browsers. Apple seems to block all other browsers using browser sniffing. But the best part came when Haavard Moen, a software engineer from rival browser maker Opera,  stated the following fact. (more…)

Apple is making its own Flash !! – Gianduia

Two is a company.. three is a crowd” is so well framed. It seems this bus is getting too crowded already. And all the more morbid in a way.

  • Microsoft wants its own flash so starts out with Silverlight.
  • Java wants its own flash so we have JavaFX
  • HTML5 standard i a clone of Flash features
  • Now Apple also wants its own flash to its making Gianduia

What is wrong with people. If you like the way things work just get together with one company and make it as a standard. There is no point is wasting money and duping developers, saying “we can make it better!!”.

Image via apple insider - appstore made with Gianduia

How pathetic can the market get ?. And if Apple’s story is true then its a mocking question that, if you really dont want Flash as a standard and believe HTML5 is for the best, why do this. And for all those writers out there.. who loved to write.. HTML5 vs Flash, Flash vs Silverlight etc: here is a topic to make a few more articles.

So now as developers, we have a garbage to walk over and as users people have a right to ask what is the game all about?.  When will it stop? and how many plugins  / standards do i have to install before i can browse the web correctly ? Well at-least i would like to know how many more Flash clones are there in making..

Flash looses yet another – Scribd moves to HTML5

One of the web’s largest online document sharing site has, decided to move to HTML5, leaving behind the technology that has been faithful to it for all these years – Adobe Flash.  Jared Friedman, co-founder and CTO of Scribd considers flash as a excellent platform for online games, but not everything that it is used for, and definitely not showing documents. Scribd claims that its HTML5 viewer will make it compatible with every device out there and make Scribd a more usable than before. Scribd demos its HTML5 viewer here on TechCrunch. Scribd also claims that they have tamed the issue of supporting all browsers when it comes to serving their new HTML5 viewer. Currently Scribd will go with a Flash-HTML5 model and then in 6 months from now they plan to go Flash free.