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
To be fair, you actually do need to update Flash and Reader. The reason is because like with Java, they were some of the most commonly and severely exploited pieces of software back when they were in common use. Thankfully Java isn't used much on the web anymore, Flash is finally starting to die, and Reader is starting to become less relevant due to built-in PDF viewing in browsers (and Windows defaults to opening PDFs in Edge, so the most common OS too).
The other comment here also nails it, Reader allowed too much shit to happen in what was supposed to be a portable (read: finalized and not mutable) document. A PDF shouldn't need to run scripts, it's a document.
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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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The other comment here also nails it, Reader allowed too much shit to happen in what was supposed to be a portable (read: finalized and not mutable) document. A PDF shouldn't need to run scripts, it's a document.