[nycbug-talk] New Amex site

[Bob Ippolito]

On Oct 26, 2005, at 3:20 PM, csnyder wrote:

> On 10/26/05, Charles Sprickman <spork at bway.net> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Scott Robbins wrote:
>>
>>
>>> What annoys me is that their site has always worked without
>>> trouble--however, now, they have an announcement about how their  
>>> site is
>>> best viewed with flash, blah blah.
>>>
>>
>> That's just moronic.  If they want to make the sales/marketing  
>> section
>> flash-heavy, fine, but to do that on the account management  
>> section is
>> just completely moronic.  I guess they also figure that no one is  
>> using
>> dialup anymore either...
>>
>>
>
>
> And also, Flash is so obviously secure and easy to audit, right?

Well, Flash does have a much much better track record than more or  
less any other browser technology.  Security is something Macromedia  
does put a lot of time into, and the people on that part of the  
player team seem to know what they're doing (I met with them a few  
weeks ago).

-bob