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[HardOCP] FedEx Paying Five Dollars to Install Flash

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#1 ·
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With Chrome, Edge and other browsers starting to block flash by default in favor of HTML5, many online services are in a mad dash to address their legacy Flash implementations. Fedex, however, is taking a different approach, and is offering a $5 discount if you go ahead and install that security swiss cheese of a plugin on your computer.
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#5 ·
This is actually hilarious. I imagine their web devs are getting some OT right about now, sure hope they aren't salary.

But no.

Sorry guys, even most of the... uh... "personal" sites are moving or have moved, that should have been a heads up.
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#6 ·
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Originally Posted by KyadCK View Post

This is actually hilarious. I imagine their web devs are getting some OT right about now, sure hope they aren't salary.

But no.

Sorry guys, even most of the... uh... "personal" sites are moving or have moved, that should have been a heads up.
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A family member of mine through marriage is a web developer for one of the major home router manufacturers.

Salary.

A pretty fat salary, but still salary!
 
#12 ·
The flash package probably won't even work after Fedex drops it down a flight of stairs and it rolls around in that dusty truck.
 
#15 ·
I really wonder what they are still using flash for though. Also, aren't browsers already blocking it from running by default?
 
#16 ·
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Originally Posted by Crazy9000 View Post

Titles fine, this isn't the deals section
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Sounds like Flash might be truly doomed if companies have to pay people to use it now, lol.
I will actually jump for joy the day Flash is announced dead. If I were Bill Gates rich I would buy Adobe just to kill it with fire in an incredible way. I would invite a ton of nerds out, just a massive burning of Flash.

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Although to be fair I made a ton of money fixing issues caused in party by it and/or security issues with it. Always two sides to one coin I suppose!

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#20 ·
Companies will do anything to avoid hiring and paying people more
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#22 ·
It's not surprising FedEx would do this. They are not the brightest crayons in the box. Their customer service agents are total morons.
 
#24 ·
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Originally Posted by Nightbird View Post

Sure, install it, get the discount, uninstall it. Why not... just a band-aid as others have mentioned.
You don't even need to do that. The coupon code is available on coupon sites.
 
#26 ·
It annoys me that how the general population hates flash without any understanding of web development and what it provides.

There are some things that are impossible to do with HTML and Javascript. I had a project where a user with a shotty internet connection needed to upload a large amount of sensor data daily. I could create an application and do this pretty easily, but getting an application approved from their IT department is a nightmare that would take at least 6 months. I needed to read data from a file, compress and segment it, but sadly this is not possible. The project was cancelled early on, but I would have been forced to use Flash, Silverlight, or JavaApplet. Out of the 3, i probably would have gone with Flash.

Flash is also the lazy way of doing something one time with guaranteed consistency. Some clients are still stuck on IE8, so there are LOTS of CSS things that are not supported, let alone functionality. With IE8 , i couldn't use websockets which gave me a headache with one of my projects. I have run into instances where I wrote code, tested with Chrome on my dev machine, everything worked great, and then i go and pull it up on a Big display in the lobby, only to find out it ran into bugs because of a small version difference between the 2 instances of Chrome. Coding for IE8-10 , Edge, Chrome, Safari, Firefox is annoying.

Fedex probably decided that instead of having to develop another application and then forced to support and maintain both until they can finally faze it out is pricey. I want to call it dumb because flash would get fazed out.... but the more I thought about it, I doubt that will be the case for a long time.

With browsers disabling it by default, you will probably see it less and less, and only used when it really needs to be. Things like going to Overclock.net should never need to run flash, but a website like Netflix or by some company your paying a service for would still exist. A good example is Unity webplayer. You dont hear people complaining about security and stuff on that, because your not running Unity when you go to some forum. (I am going to check out unity after i finish my current project to see how well it handles rending 3d models compared to the ThreeJS javascript libraries i am currently using)

And a random image of something I had to make using ThreeJS. Its a Javascript library that takes care of all the OpenGL stuff. I'm too lazy to make a gif, but the water animation effect looks amazing.
 
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