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- ukit0
I think an argument could be made that in an age where there is less and less standardization in regard to the client, it becomes even more important to standard format or language itself. Otherwise we are counting on Flash to perform well in different contexts, and a lot of it is in the hands of Adobe. I'm sure they'll do a bang up job just as soon as they finish the new version of the Bones tool.
I guess the reason I don't feel much angst about what Apple is doing is that Flash is on the way out anyway. When you have a completely free alternative - i.e., JQuery, or whatever else is out there - that is as good or nearly as good - it's hard to see how that doesn't eventually overtake the technology that costs $400 for the proprietary version and is harder to work with. Flash won't die completely but it will almost certainly play a more limited role in the future. All of which would have happened without the iPad.
But what the iPad does is force companies to reevaluate their sites and make them backwards compatible to viewing experiences that don't support Flash.
- Nice analysis. I concur.monospaced
- uh how is jquery on par with the flash player?Mimio