RIP FlashForward
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- Hombre_Lobo0
^im so pleased someone else on this forum actually sees how flash is still far superior to current offerings.
Flash had its problems sure, but it still can do so much more than html5 or any other 'pretending to be a flash replacement' technology. How much time do devs waste today and cross browser testing. That's just one of the many awesome things about flash.
It also amazes me in particular that most designers were happy to let a company tell them what web formats they should be viewing.
Our opinion is not shared by many, mostly due to brainwashed clueless fanboys who don't understand web development.
- Hombre_Lobo0
But hey! Have you seen this [insert website here] - its an amazing interactive website that was made in html5!! It's great!
Except it's no technically more advanced than flash stuff from 10 years ago.
If someone chops a tree down using a nail file, is the result better than someone who used a saw? Course it isn't. You got there in the end, but it's the same result we've seen for years and it probably took you way longer.
- Hombre_Lobo0
BRING ON DEM ANGRY FLASH HATING FAN BOYS!
- ok_not_ok0
- i would love to see a new book with all the same people "where are they now" stylefreakpelican
- jhey0
- detritus0
Went to check the Flash version on my wee Linux-using laptop earlier as I couldn't access Vimeo videos on it, to be confronted with a message saying that the current release will be the last one for Linux.
Not that Linux is the lion's share of the consumer PC market, but that doesn't really bode very well for Flash... not even its mid-term.
- ernexbcn0
Flash was a resource hog that had no place in this world anymore. Don't blame it on Apple, blame it on Adobe not being able to do a proper mobile version of the god damned plugin. They even gave up trying with Android.
The web doesn't need a "standard" owned by 1 company.
- Jobs said he wasn't adopting it because "the future is open source."boobs
- not entirely, he also asked Adobe to provide an effective version of the plugin that did not kill the batteryernexbcn
- Adobe couldn't deliver, neither on Android and they finally gave upernexbcn
- Who cares what Jobs said? It was just ONE FUCKING PHONE. There were hundreds of others that DID support it.monospaced
- Chill them beans fan boyHombre_Lobo
- It's quite simple that one phone can change stuff. Apples influence was bigger than the average users need for flash. Simple.Hombre_Lobo
- Ghostschool0
- sorry - got the wrong festival I thought you meant - fotb!Ghostschool
- Ghostschool0
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