64 bit video

Flash is A11Y hostile, and as such, web designers who use it should be required to have both arms, both legs, both ears, and both eyes removed before being allowed to design another website.

But there is another problem with flash as well. It is not cross-platform. Flash is stuck in a 32 bit world. A world that died in the previous century. Technology that is more than a decade out of date. The only people that use 32 bit operating systems are people that run virii that masquarade as trojans that masquerade as operating systems.


The image below is of the page at http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html.



Which is why FLOCK, a so-called social browser, fails to cut it as a social experience:



Whilst Minefield almost passes that test:



As does Namoroka:



Epiphany doesn't have any issues:



Galeon displays the same error message as firefox:



It is hardly surprising that Konqueror exhibits the same failure to display flash:



And for those of you who want to torture your ears, listening to what to has to have been one the worst songs to ever come out of Bulawayo, it can be found http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWDAPFU19GI .

Thunderbird

Today, I concluded that there is no way that I can accept Thunderbird as having anything that even remotely resembles an email client.

It is, at best, a toy for people who never receive email. A category that I am not in.

A pity, because that means that there are no email clients for Linux that use a GUI.

Thunderbird bugs

Way back in 2006 I filed a bug report for Thunderbird using the mozilla bugzilla.

Today it was closed due to insufficient information.
What they wanted was a copy of the logs that Thunderbird generates.

Between the fact that I turn Thunderbird logging off, and that my workaround consists of either doing everything sequentially, or using different email clients to retrieve email, I did not have the logs they requested.

I was under the impression that the bug report was closed years ago, as "will not fix". One of the developers told me that the described scenario is outside of the design specifications for Thunderbird. As such, Thunderbird is not a suitable email client for me, and the patch I requested is not suitable for including in Thunderbird.

I am at a complete loss as to how having log files --- any log files --- would help them code the requested patch. Especially since the parameters are provided in the original bug report.

And people wonder why I don't recommend Thunderbird, on the basis that it does not retrieve email.