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Replace these Flash graphs with HTML 5 graphs. In the user/friends profiles, please use HTML 5 based graphs so that these can be viewed on iOS devices.
The fitness tracking products that have the most useful product software apps will survive. Period. Let's see who comes out on top. Having flash as a requirement for premium package at $49/yr for example, makes me want to look at other devices that are better supported. Don't get me wrong, I like the possibilities from 3rd party developers with Fitbit, but to have to go to the web to look at my dashboard is ridiculous. Just saying.
I use Linux, and Adobe Flash support was discontinued after version 11. Please get rid of Flash completely. Till the time you finish the upgrade, please ensure backwards compatibility with version 11.2.202.451 of Flash.
Flash is a serious SECURITY RISK, as pointed out recently by security correspondent Brian Krebs: A month without Adobe Flash Player. I have taken his advice and disabled it on my browsers, which makes the Fitbit dashboard almost useless. Other security specialists have been advising users to avoid Flash, and websites to not use it. Perhaps its time for Fitbit to move into the Third Millennium.
The really frustrating thing about this, is that the Dashboard/new tiles/etc are NOT using Flash and yet are much more involved and dynamic, in terms of animations and other advanced UI features. Those couple of little charts on the profile page that are still using Flash are ridiculously simple to implement in HTML5/CSS, comparatively speaking. (I know what I'm talking about, I've been developing software for 30+ years.)
They (the Fitbit web product/business development team) should really get their priorities straight; this is a MAJOR annoyance -- and for no (apparent) good reason!
OK, this has reached crisis proportions. 3 NEW ZERO DAY exploits in less than a week. This year's Flash news-over 3 dozen critical security flaws in Flash patched since the beginning of the year, and an unknown number undetected:
Just noticed that this suggestion was originally posted A YEAR AND A HALF ago, and the status is still 'Reviewed' and not even 'Under consideration'... They really DON'T seem to care about this issue at all. 😞
Oops, I thought I was responding to a similar thread in the speed est.net forum, where the alternative is speedof.me. The alternative for Fitbit is the new look or smart phone apps.
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