Radio and TV stations utilizing the Flash player for their streams (and there are many as noted) risk losing listenership should the Iphone become any more popular.
Ted
---- Flor Lynch <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Although it isn't mentioned in the article, I think Adobe ought to -
> while they're at it - re-design their Flash product(s) from an
> accessibility point of view. Many radio & TV stations are now using
> embedded Adobe Flash players, which, despite the best efforts of the
> stations' site developers, in many instances remain, at best imperfectly
> accessible to us, at worst quite unusable. the move is towards flash,
> not away from it - as yet.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Pietruk" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 1:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [VICUG-L] BBC News - Legal action on 'zombie cookies' filed
> in US court
>
>
> > Collin
> >
> > The first thing to do, when reading a story such as this, is take a
> > deep
> > breath and place things in proper perspective. Graham Cluley, in the
> > conclusion of the news story, I believe hits things on target.
> > lThe question, for users, is whether or not this actually means
> > anything.
> > My thought is that, for you and me, this is much ado about nothing as
> > the
> > info fathered is harmless and may actually enhance the user experience
> > on
> > a given site or while listening to a given type of audio. It isn't
> > being
> > used to compromise you in any way or to steal from your credit card,
> > checking account, whatever.
> >
> > Instinctively, folks don't like being tracked -- I understand this.
> > However, it is happening every day and if you use a credit card, a
> > shopper's card at a grocery store, use a cell or landline phone, post
> > email, send text msgs, twitter, file a tax return, apply for anything,
> > et
> > al et al, you are being tracked.
> > I worry about tracking if the intent is to steal something from me;
> > otherwise, it is a part of contemporary life which, more often than
> > not,
> > makes things simpler for us.
> > After all, a cookie, be it flash or otherwise, will more often than
> > not
> > simplify my use of a site the next time I come to it as it remembers
> > things.
> > The time it may become a hindrance, as pointed out on another list, is
> > when it triggers a setting that may interfere with someting ie;
> > preventing
> > me playing something more than xx times in yy time.
> >
> >
> > So relax, consider yourself more well-informed as you likely never
> > heard
> > of flash cookies until this news story, and continue doing what you
> > have
> > been doing.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > God's answers are wiser than our prayerss.
> >
> > --unknown
> >
> >
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