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- animatedgif0
Flash was a terrible authoring tool, Flash developers haven't used it in years, Adobe hasn't updated it or fixed the most basic of issues in it for years, Adobe doesn't care about it or it's users and the animation tools are a joke in it.
Of all the positive things you can say about Flash, this isn't one of them
- fate0
The support for those technologies is schizophrenic.
And there's not an authoring tool (like Flash) that makes them work seamlessly.
- animatedgif0
Web tech is in a better position now than it's ever been. HTML5, Javascript, Canvas and WebGL have added more in the past year than Adobe added to Flash in 5 years.
If you can't think beyond wordpress isn't that your problem?
- the only problem is the very low clients/ordinary people browser adoption rateschrisRG
- sureshot0
http://www.noscope.com/archive/1…
15 years old.
- sureshot0
I miss the old days of flash. browsing portfolio sites, surfstation, were-here and even flashkit. I dont do shit no more. Almost every site look the same now. Flash made sites more fun. I remember when this site went online: http://wireframe.co.za/yulia/eng… I though how the fuck are they doing the roll-Overs with the image in the header. I could spend days and nights trying to figure that shit out. Good times.
- chrisRG0
For the web (full websites) Flash is dead. But ActionScript lives, I've been building iOS and Android Apps with AIR, it's the way to go.
For the web it's easier to explain to a client that a website will only works on modern browsers than try selling Flash.
- Llyod0
flash still has life but mainly for ads and video. sucks.
- Continuity0
'What's stopping people from creating Flash sites today?'
As such, nothing; however, the anti-Flash/pro-Turn-the-Interweb... crowd have managed to change perceptions against the technology, which makes it an incredibly hard sell.
Trend or not, this one is really difficult to break through.
- Can't wait for a fully specced authoring tool for html5/canvas/etcmikotondria3
- Whatever it was it wasn't Steve jobs.monospaced
- reanimate0
What's stopping people from creating Flash sites today?
If you believe in it that much, sell the client on a Flash site and a smaller alternate site aimed at mobile.
There is also no reason for the template-like WordPress look of many sites, other than the fact that it's what everyone else is doing.
I still say this has more to do with trends (which most people follow mindlessly) than any technological barrier.
- ernexbcn0
Flash still lives... on the 20 PCs Boz has at home.
- utopian0
The interwebs in general, has become all about replication and the regurgitation of everyone else's... lazy, boring, replicated, regurgitated shit.
- utopian0
Boz Bump!
- fate0
Webazoot, that kind of attitude is turning the web into a digital version of the Yellow Pages.
There *is* a place websites that function as art & entertainment.
Not everyone is a rat in a maze trying to find the piece of cheese the quickest.
- webazoot0
As an end user I can only think of half a dozen times a flash website I was using actually warranted the use of flash or made the site more entertaining or 'engaging'. Generally they were just a hindrance to finding the information you wanted to get to.
- utopian0
The "ME" generation has finally caught up to web design!
- instrmntl0
It's amazing how slow and shitty animated gifts play on an iPad in the animated gifts thread. It can't handle them all. This is the platform that people now want sites delivered on.
- EXACTLY! Why did those Flash pussies let one stupid device stop them from developing??????monospaced
- inteliboy0
I swear I used to read on here constant bitching about bad design on the web, the lack of grids or any layout principals, poor typography, stupid sounds, annoying animated navs that u need to figure out for each new website blah blah...
- fadein110
I blame Jeffrey Zeldman more than Apple. Standards are a great idea of course but generating accessible cross browser sites without using plugins undoubtably stifles creativity. Apple are also to blame. My clients are small to medium and none of them will touch Flash now purely because of the iPad. Creativity and experimentation are low on the agenda nowadays. Clients have wised up to their audience. However I can see benefits to both sides.
- mikotondria30
We've all kind of allied ourselves to a small number of seemingly unbreakable codes, that emerged in the first half of the 00s, somewhat justifiably, but we've got locked into them. They center largely around conventions of usability. What happened as Flash was bloating and web2.0 as a UX concept - and a design aesthetic, was coming to the fore, is that it - became - set - in - stone, that the logo goes top left, a properly meaningfully described menu below or to the right of that, some engaging artistic imagery below that, to include some brand values via sharp, sterile copy and design, prominent content below that, column of incidentals to the right, and middle etc etc etc. All our sites - no matter what the subject, became bound up in the old-world inherited concepts of magazine readership. Now we are driven by ipad views, we've just transplanted the previous generation of media onto the new media and it's become choked. Flash helped break the mold and evolved a novel, seemingly endless way of presenting brands and art and encouraging and fostering interaction and novel relationship-building regimes. We've stopped animating, and have confined video to formulaically live in a little box as one stop on a jquery slider. It's all become still, and static, and rigid.
We need to rediscover dynamic, novel ways to engage and entertain - not forgetting the basic usability rules that we learned by making bad flash sites. We need user paths and information easily findable, usable, relevant and sharable, but instead of a page being a single node connected to dozens of one-step journeys, we need to reintroduce story-telling and multi-step experiences, not give it all up above the fold. Now we've got bigger screens and better typographical choices and the means of production of motion and complex static graphics are more accessible. It can be the start of something it once was, if we can just break out of the paradigm that the tools control the product - it can all be powered by wp as far as I care.
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