[ANN] Stacks published on the Web

[Rick Harrison]

Hi there,

I think this problem is a huge mess!  I found myself
feeling really paranoid about trying the stacks due
to the nasty sounding dialogs.

There has to be a better solution or people will not
adopt using the plug-in.

Just my 2 cents.

Rick

On Aug 2, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Colin Holgate wrote:

>
> On Aug 2, 2009, at 1:26 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>
>>
>> I have to agree that the generic warning is a little too scary to  
>> encourage widespread adoption.
>
> An example of too many dialogs preventing adoption is Shockwave.  
> Even with 60% of people having Shockwave installed, clients tend not  
> to want to use it because installing the plugin has opt-out add-ons,  
> and if you access content on another valid site for the same  
> company, Shockwave would show that security dialog. With the latest  
> Shockwave version you can now check the crossdomain.xml policy file,  
> and so at last can get around that issue for using content on  
> another one of the client's sites.
>
> Flash security is extremely tough and limiting, and manages to do  
> all that without having to bother the user with permission dialogs.  
> About 15 years of effort has gone into the thinking behind how  
> Shockwave and Flash security is handled, so there is a chance that  
> some of what they have done is a good way to work.
>
> So, Rev stacks online for your relatives to see your work is fine,  
> but for real large client work it won't succeed if every user that  
> uses the piece has to cope with security and permissions dialogs,  
> because clients will tell you to use Flash instead.
>
>
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