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mikew67
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LyX Visual Tour contains obsolete Flash content and fails

Post by mikew67 »

Was just attempting to browse the Lyx Visual Tour at: https://www.lyx.org/VisualTour and got blank pages when clicking on the screen images. Looked at the HTML, which contained JavaScript calls, which in turn invoked "Macromedia" Flash content.

FYI, Adobe has stopped supporting Flash as of the end of 2020 and my macOS Big Sur does not contain a player for it. (I'll not get into the history for why Flash has been deprecated other than to note the Steve Jobs called it "evil" and forbade Flash players in iOS :-)

In any case, hope someone can port the LyX Visual Tour content to more modern media.

Thanks for everyone's work on LyX, which looks like it's going to be a very useful tool for me (mainly doing math equation layout for Jupyter notebooks).

Mike

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