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Steve Jobs was wrong on Flash

Steve Jobs was wrong on Flash With Adobes recent announcement that they will discontinue supporting Flash on mobile devices, a lot of people are declaring that Jobs was right on Flash. I say he was wrong and heres why. Before we really start, lets set the record straight about Flash. Flash allowed web developers to do things that where impossible in HTML. This was good, but many developers got carried away and created monstrosities, building websites void of HTML and completely annoying to use. This gave Flash a bad name amongst real web developers who saw it as a cop-out for developers. However it allowed games and videos to exist in a space where it would have otherwise to deliver such content. As HTML5 has been rolled out amongst every major browser web developers have been looking forward to the death of Flash. I fall in the "death to Flash" camp, but I still believe Jobs was wrong. Computing is a user-centric experience. If the computer isnt doing what the user wants, th...

Solution for DOMException Failed to load because no supported source was found error in Chrome with HTML5 media API

Solution for DOMException Failed to load because no supported source was found error in Chrome with HTML5 media API After updating Chrome to release 53 this week, my web application was no longer able to use the media API to capture video with a webcam. This is the third time that I am forced to update my code due to changes in Chrome... this is getting a little annoying! The error message I was getting in my javascript console is: DOMException: Failed to load because no supported source was found Ill keep it short. The problem was the way I set the source of my media element. I was setting the source like this: navigator.getUserMedia(videoObj, function(stream) {    CaptureImageStream = stream;    CaptureImageVideo.src = stream ;    CaptureImageVideo.play(); }, errBack); It seems like this is no longer supported. I changed it to this and it now works again: navigator.getUserMedia(videoObj, function(stream) {    CaptureImageStream = stream;   ...

Solved Failed to deploy OVF package The task was canceled by a user

Solved Failed to deploy OVF package The task was canceled by a user deleted the .mf open the *.OVF file and change following from vmware.cdrom. iso to vmware.cdrom. atapi Now retry the deployment of OVF. - Mihir download file now