By emulating Flash Player 11.2 for Linux in a PC emulator perhaps?

I think people really misunderstand Bertrand Meyer. His view of OOP is not the normal 'code reuse + do things automatically' pablum. The central point of his book, to him, the central point of OOP, is code contracts. How's that for a mind-warp?

Which means "the appropriate application for the urltype" needs to exist for the user's platform. Not everyone wants to have to make 14 different apps for 14 different platforms, not to mention that several platforms require a long and involved developer pre-approval process. For example, the Flash Lite player in Internet Channel was the only publicly available game development environment for Wii before that console was cracked.

Have you been reading the "Clean Code" book? lol (or rather, have your coworkers been reading it and berating you because of it).

I like to divide code into two categories, code that 'does stuff' and 'glue code.' The goal is to minimize the glue code as much as possible, while still maintaining flexibility.

If you follow the rule of the Linux kernel development, "Each function should do one thing and do it well," then your code will be a lot closer to flexible almost immediately, even without building a framework around it.

So what tools would you recommend for building these without, say, having to type all the (x, y) coordinates into a script file? I haven't seen any animation stuff in Inkscape, unless there was some recent huge update of which I'm not aware.

Neither does HTML5 if you abuse onmouseover. The lack of hover is completely orthogonal to the SWF vs. HTML debate.

I go to get.webgl.org using Firefox 35.0.1 on a laptop with an Intel IGP and all I get is "Hmm. While your browser seems to support WebGL, it is disabled or unavailable. If possible, please ensure that you are running the latest drivers for your video card." Badgers, on the other hand, still plays perfectly.

Yes, the "no, you tell me" answer. It's not a phonorecord, but the ECU of my car is copyrighted. Am I allowed to transfer the license to my ECU (and the car along with it)?

My house is copyrighted. It's a "creative work" as are all architectural designs, unless proven otherwise.

But you are asserting that it doesn't apply to those copyrighted items. Why?

In theory, I agree. But in practice, which "better, more secure platforms" for authoring and presenting vector animation on the web would you recommend? And how should we convince contributors to the aforementioned sites to remake their works using the new tech?

I think you need to be a team player in order to write readable code. By definition, writing readable code means you are thinking about how other people will understand it.

"Forcing" in what way? For me, only recently did Firefox start allowing the HTML5 player for videos that roll ads.

Here's some.

My car and house are covered under copyright. The ECU and other things are copyrighted. I have notes in my owner's manual to that effect. The structure of my house is a "creative work" as asserted by all architects everywhere, and thus is also copyrighted.

What's your problem? That you don't know that the software in your car is copyrighted?

Then how does the Right of First Sale have nothing to do with my car, when it applies to my car?

Seems the only one here that doesn't know what it is is you.

First level is to be able to get the computer to do what you want. If you can do that, you have a career as a programmer.

Most people don't make it that far, so it's something. The next level is whether you can write readable code. A lot of programmers never learn to write readable code, but a good number of them do.

The next step is writing flexible software. Some programmers stuff everything into design patterns and think they made it flexible, but they're wrong. Other programmers try to make everything generic thinking it's flexible, but they're wrong (also, their code is probably hard to read). But writing code where small changes take little effort, and bigger changes take more effort......that is a rare skill indeed.

There are other ways of looking at it, but that's one way.