Following On …

Hmmm …

This is literally going to be fairly quick: but do you remember, a few days ago, I told you about the ‘critical security flaw’ that Adobe had discovered in their Flash Player software … ?

It was definitely something to be aware of, as — according to both Adobe and the BBC report — this flaw was something that could affect machines running Mac OS X, Linux based PC’s, and — obviously — the various Windoze machines, out there.

I know I’ve told most of my friends to be a) bloody careful and b) follow the security advice on the relevant page of the Adobe site.

Thankfully, they have.

And if they haven’t, they’ve been care to not visit YouTube, or play too many flash-based games for a few days.

But I know I thought to check on the BBC’s Technology News pages, just now: where I found that Adobe have released their Flash Player 10.1 update.

Now I know that I, as a Mac owner, am going to have less chance of being hit by any malicious software out there, purely because there’s less aimed at both Mac OS X and the various Linux and Unix distributions out there.

But, given that Flash is so ubiquitous, I’d hate to leave myself open to any that are around: the more likely possibility is that I, or my Linux using friends, could easily pass on something to my Windoze using friends.

Politer not too, wouldn’t you say … ?

And — on top of that — I’d hate to be the first person to get a Flash-based OS X virus, just because I’ve not kept up-to-date …

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Actually, though …

That Flash-borne problems may — or may not — be an problems for long. For a given value of ‘for long’, of course.

Because one thing I know I’ve been seeing on assorted tech news sights is references to HTML5.

Which Apple have now issued support for, in the new versio of their browser, Safari 5.

As you may or may not know, HTML is the basic computer language that defines the text in websites, how that text looks, and where it links to.

Well …

From what I’m given to understand, HTML5 is the (still under development) version which is projected to include support for ‘ rich internet application’ stuff: interactive games and multi-media streams from the likes of YouTube and Popcap Games.

And hopefully reduce the need for vulnerable, third party plug-ins.

Personally … ?

I’m just glad Apple have introduced the ability to scroll through tabs with the Ctrl (^) and tab (⇥) keys.

Given the amount of tabs I have open at any one time, that’s handy!

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