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February 28, 2007
User control
User control: Daniel Robinson rants on Flash at Information Week, but I think he's got a valid point: how can you protect yourself from poor content choices made by others? In his case his office just got blasted by a music-enhanced site he visited... he had previously avoided adding the Player in an attempt to restrict website ads... he also wonders about websurfing from a mobile device. Me, I usually don't have loudspeakers on while surfing... I use FlashBlock when in Firefox, but haven't had the heart to go to full-on adblocking yet (Daniel's getting paid via a SWF ad, btw)... there are lots of websites out right now which don't display as desired on every pocket browser, so that's a valid point too. (Sometimes I'm also affected by SWFs which request a high framerate, particularly when a few of them are competing against each other (and me ;-)). I like the general goal of offering more media control in the Player, myself, but the Player Global Settings manager already confuses many people, and I know that the deeper you look the trickier that problem becomes. I'd definitely encourage muting the speakers in an office, and if you use your computer to listen to music while surfing, then per-app system control over the audio output would be good. We're agreed that successful work usually respects each enduser's experience, so helping to personally customize the experience is always a desirable goal. In the meantime, turning off the speakers might help. [via jeff@thewarp]
Posted by JohnDowdell at February 28, 2007 02:10 PM
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JD,
I remember that someone suggested that Flash Player should have sound controls (it could sit in some menu options). This would really help.
I also agree with framerate thing but that is with JavaScript, very often I land up in websites which freeze my browser...sometimes I end up killing browser, thanks to session store extension, I get all open tabs back.
-abdul
Posted by: Abdul Qabiz at February 28, 2007 03:08 PM
To be more clear:
Menu options - It's browser menu if its plugin.
Player menu - if it's standalone.
-abdul
Posted by: Abdul Qabiz at February 28, 2007 03:09 PM
Abdul - that was me. I asked why there wasn't a mute button for Flash. Turns out there -is- a program out there called FlashMute. I've been using it for months and couldn't live w/o it.
Posted by: Raymond Camden at February 28, 2007 03:28 PM
I agree with framerate thing.It worked well on my website.
Posted by: pearl-jewelry-wholesaler at March 5, 2007 08:38 PM