On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 06:04:25PM +0100, Alex Hudson wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
Indeed. However, this issue is not in fact about Apple, it's about the ASA. FSFE may (or may not) be in a position to advocate against the decision that Flash is required to asdvertise "full internet" in the UK.
In terms of "fair descriptions of goods", surely Flash is a necessity?
If we set aside the issue of free or non-free software for a moment, the number of sites which require Flash to work is sufficiently large that I would consider a system which couldn't access them to offer less-than-full access.
This is just about being honest with consumers, surely?
If it's about being honest with consumers, than they should just say: "won't play flash content since it's a proprietary format we don't support"
I seldom notice that I don't have flash support installed anyway, thanks to wonderful tools like NoScript, and most of the times I notice, it's some moronic joke site someplace I don't even care to remember.
Rui