Going Flash-Free on Mac OS X, and How to Cheat When You Need It
La recepta de John Gruber (Daring Fireball) per a alliberar el Mac de la càrrega del Flash. Recomana desinstal·lar el paquet d’Adobe, en compte d’utilitzar filtres com ClickToFlash. I en cas de necessitat sempre es pot obrir una pàgina amb el Google Chrome, que no utilitza el Flash del sistema sinó que porta incorporat el seu plugin propi.
Besides the fact that Flash is closed and proprietary, has major technical drawbacks, and doesn’t support touch based devices, there is an even more important reason we do not allow Flash on iPhones, iPods and iPads […]
Keep reading to know Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash :-)
To my knowledge, Apple controls the entire source code to the iPhone OS. That’s not to say they wrote the whole thing from scratch. Many low-level OS components are open source. But they have the source. If there’s a bug, they can fix it. If something is slow, they can optimize or re-write it. That is not true for Mac OS X, and Flash is a prime example. The single leading source of application crashes on Mac OS X is a component that Apple can’t fix.
John Gruber insisteix en el tablet i de passada torna a aclarir, per a qui no ho sàpiga, per quina raó bàsica Apple no vol Flash en l’iPhone OS. Això i més coses en aquest apunt: Daring Fireball: Tablet Musings
