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In 1999 I taught myself Flash 3 and wrote a manual for it in college. In 2001 I was doing some pretty crazy stuff with Flash 4 and Generator on an enterprise-level application.
Today I might open up Flash once every three months. Flash has some pretty painful limitations, and while there are some really amazing things it can do, Flash is very rarely required for most websites.
If you're doing something pretty clever and amazing that does require Flash, it shouldn't be too hard to convince the client to go with that option. Otherwise it's probably not necessary.
Here's a great essay on the whole issue: http://daringfireball.net/2010/0…
The part that got me was that Flash is a hugely prevelant technology, and it's proprietary and closed source. Adobe controls it completely, and I wouldn't want to get too reliant on that sort of technology. In this case, I think Adobe is the new Microsoft.
- Well played on Adobe is the new Microsoft; I concur... Apple is just thinking ahead then?ideaist
- They usually are. They killed the floppy, turned us on to Firewire, and made touch screens fun.monospaced