Interactive Development
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- Boz0
nah utopian.. don't worry about it. It's just shifting to better things and the crap stuff and simplest things will now be done with JS/JQuery/CSS3.
It is true though that less experience Flash devs might find themselves without work because a lot of simpler things (on a level of Flash 7 and Flash 8) is now possible with JQuery/CSS/JS/HTML5. So that's why you might see simpler sites with not a lot of heavy animation or whatever use JQuery/HTML/CSS (not even HTML5 really) instead of Flash.
THat's normal really because finally after 15 years HTML/JS/CSS is not shit. It's still a mess though when you have to write ton of shit to make it work and look half decent on other browsers.
I"ll give you an example. Just today, I'm showing to a new site for Fox I did and their new show. All HTML/CSS/JS/JQuery and their WHOLE FUCKING OFFICE is using IE8 and they don't see rounded corners in CSS.
So my first request is to make images and do rounded corners that way so they are compatible with IE7,IE8.
WHo's going to pay for that time? In Flash for example, I never had those problems. BUt I guess it's ok, younger folks can do that shit because they can charge $500 and then spend 3 weeks dealing with compatibilities among browsers.
Flash is shifting it's purpose. It's doing things that it's REALLY good at. Real cross-platform, animated, mixed video, multi-channel applications and games that would be insanity to build in HTML/CSS/JS.
The future is clear. Flash is going on a higher plane, games, entertainment, apps, more complex video while HTML5/JS/JQuery/CSS3 will eventually replace smaller animations, photo galleries and bunch of other smaller stuff. Finally.
It is definitely a good idea to learn and keep up with JQuery, HTML5 and all that not because it will kill Flash but because it will work WITH Flash and you will be a much better developer and designer if you know everything. And it's not that hard to learn too.
- Finally a Boz post with no hate AND it makes sense!Amicus
- hate for what? I never said I hated HTML5/JS/JQuery at all. I like it. It's just that Flash is also excellent and more advanced in many ways to JS/CSS even with Canvas.Boz
- many ways to JS/CSS even with Canvas. I just get riled up with bullshit rhetoric how one has to kill the other because Steve Jobs said so.Boz
- Steve Jobs said so. Especially when HTML5 and Flash are supplemental and not exclusive technologies.Boz
- google dd roundies boz, easiest way to make round cornersattentionspan