Flash is back?
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- Hombre_Lobo0
^100% agree.
I genuinely can't understand how people can say flash is bad, when there still isn't (at the very least for a smaller budget) a better alternative with the same capabilities.And not only that, complex animated/interactive html5 still runs like shit on mobile. When flash ran perfectly well.
If someone says we can't use flash because of IOS, that's fine.
But when people say flash is crap, it's a bad format, when there isn't a better alternative, it's plain stupid.
Flash uses more resources than HTML? Of course it does. Videos are a resource hog compared to HTML, do users complain about that?You choose your tools for the job, flash had downsides, but for rich interactive unique web experiences, flash was (and in a lot of cases, still is) the best choice.
A lot of crap might have been made in flash, but blaming the format is stupid. do you say jpgs are shit after seeing a bunch of crappy images?
Like formed says, people are now impressed by stuff we were doing 6 years ago in flash, just because its in a different format (html5). Is that progress? It's a huge set back to the web and I'm surprised designers and developers are happy about it.
Further to that a decent amount of successful apps are still made using flash / as3 (that yes, work on IOS devices).
In fact a while back (maybe 2012) the top grossing IOS app was machinarium, and it was built in flash.
So it can't be that bad can it. And it's chosen because of its unrivalled cross device, cross browser compatibility. It's not perfect but it's still one of the best cross platform app deployment processes.TLDR: Flash was a great option, with no better alrenative, and IOS aside, it still hasn't been surpassed. The web has taken a step back in terms of progress.
- btw, I agree Flash was rad, and that it was being used in amazing ways, and I wanted it on my phonemonospaced