{"id":1309,"date":"2016-03-11T22:34:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T03:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2018-11-19T11:18:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T16:18:17","slug":"important-information-on-the-slide-show-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/important-information-on-the-slide-show-system\/","title":{"rendered":"IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON THE SLIDE SHOW SYSTEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To recap my posts on the topic of managing photos in the light of new policies from Google.<\/p>\n<p>I make extensive use of Google&#8217;s Picasa system which is due to be decommissioned.\u00a0 From February forward, I have moved away from Picasa.\u00a0 Google is committed to maintaining the content with limitations.\u00a0It appears as if one of the limitations will interfere with the code that displays slide shows.\u00a0 The photo albums are not affected.<\/p>\n<p>The slide shows were displayed using the Adobe Flash player; you require a working Flash Player for the slide shows to function.\u00a0 Apple dropped support for the Flash Player a long time ago; recent updates of the Android operating system have dropped support of the Adobe Flash Player.\u00a0 The solution for both Apple and Android is the Puffin Browser (Android users have other options such as Firefox).<\/p>\n<p>From February forward, I dropped Picasa and reworked my methods; the photo album and the slide show are consolidated.\u00a0 The new methods do not require the Flash Player and work well on all platforms.<\/p>\n<p>I will study the situation for a while but my plan is to redo the blog entries that include slide shows for 2015 using the new methods; prior to 2015, the photos remain available on the album pages, the slide shows will remain blank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To recap my posts on the topic of managing photos in the light of new policies from Google. I make extensive use of Google&#8217;s Picasa system which is due to be decommissioned.\u00a0 From February forward,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-17","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1310,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abelfamily.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}