The Talk Show #14: Bubble Gum Apps

Thursday October 28, 2010 at 15:17

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The Talk Show #14: Bubble Gum Apps

Craig Hockenberry and I invaded John Gruber and Dan Benjamin’s show yesterday and talked about the upcoming Mac App Store and Flash.

I’m following Gruber’s lead and trying to run without Flash. It’s interesting so far — most notably, Safari is much faster and more stable without it.

With Flash removed from the Internet Plugins folder, Firefox won’t have it, either, but Chrome will (it comes with its own version), so I just fire up Chrome if I really need a Flash page and keep Safari fast and stable for everything else. So far, I like it. But it still feels a little extreme, like disabling Javascript, and I know I’ll run into minor inconveniences on a regular basis — but beachballing and crashing my browser are major inconveniences that I’m happy to avoid.

I’d like to re-emphasize one of the points in Steven Frank’s blog post linked to above. Running ClickToFlash is handy, but it still shows your browser as Flash friendly. Not only do certain websites act differently with the plugin removed (e.g. Google Finance), but it also lets the website’s owner know that their Flash content, and more importantly ads, are not being seen.

It’s also a bit fairer to website owners since, unlike ClickToFlash which masquerades as Flash in order to intercept it, my browser now truly identifies as not having Flash installed. Sites have an opportunity to serve me a non-Flash alternative for their ads.

(Source: marco)

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