Occupy Flash? Huh?

Ran across the Occupy Flash site tonight. The site is trying to mount a national or global effort to get users to uninstall Adobe Flash Player from their (primarily) desktop machines. The idea being that as long as the player has its present ubiquity, developers will continue to throw resources at it as an app platform despite the availability, as part  of the rapidly dominating HTML5 standard, of open source approaches to multimedia apps.

Seems like kind of a weird idea to me. There's not a lot of HTML5 multimedia stuff out there yet; a great many sites are sticking to Flash while many are making a slow transition to the new standard. The move is premature. In a year or possibly less, such an undertaking will actually make sense without damaging the average user experience too much.

But it's a nice idea.
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