Hating flash is like hating paper because most of what is written on paper is advertising and lies. Oceans of wonderful content were made with or had their origins in flash. If you care about the good stuff, you might look up Bluemaxima's Flashpoint.
People hate flash not because of the content but because it causes a lot of problems. At one point, Flash was responsible for over 80% of all browser crashes.
Not to mention dealing with Adobe. Adobe has the most attention whoring software I've ever seen. "Look at me! Flash needs an update! Hey, I'm down here, look update me!" Which includes "Hey, I know it's the same PDF you made three years ago and the format doesn't change all that rapidly, but I really think you need to update your PDF reader...."
Not to mention they immediately deprecated old versions. I ran a K1000 system for my last company, there were seriously times I checked in the morning to see i
You do need to update your PDF reader, because PDF does too much. If it only did things necessary for displaying content and maybe at most validating form input, it wouldn't be such a security nightmare.
For about 99.9% of PDF's, you can use something like SumatraPDF because those files don't use any of those features, and basically stick to what PDF was originally created for. It's really a very small minority where you actually need to use Adobe Reader.
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Hating flash is like hating paper because most of what is written on paper is advertising and lies. Oceans of wonderful content were made with or had their origins in flash. If you care about the good stuff, you might look up Bluemaxima's Flashpoint.
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Not to mention dealing with Adobe. Adobe has the most attention whoring software I've ever seen. "Look at me! Flash needs an update! Hey, I'm down here, look update me!" Which includes "Hey, I know it's the same PDF you made three years ago and the format doesn't change all that rapidly, but I really think you need to update your PDF reader...."
Not to mention they immediately deprecated old versions. I ran a K1000 system for my last company, there were seriously times I checked in the morning to see i
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You do need to update your PDF reader, because PDF does too much. If it only did things necessary for displaying content and maybe at most validating form input, it wouldn't be such a security nightmare.
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For about 99.9% of PDF's, you can use something like SumatraPDF because those files don't use any of those features, and basically stick to what PDF was originally created for. It's really a very small minority where you actually need to use Adobe Reader.