[ANN] Stacks published on the Web

[Colin Holgate]

On Aug 2, 2009, at 1:26 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

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> 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.