Death of Flash
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- SumWurk0
- Shister!SumWurk
- creepye-pill
- i haf to go to creepygif.com to view the creepy gif animation.jazmine
- acescence0
correct me if i'm wrong here, but only windows has hardware acceleration for video. flash video on mac still sucks pretty hard. hopefully that can change.
I don't agree that they need to focus on designers though, if they're to be taken seriously as a development platform, they need to work hard to build a strong dev community. I read a great blog post the other day, i'll try to dig it up. anyway, the gist was that developing for as3 is frustrating because the community is 99% amateurs that have no idea how to program. think of any simple problem in, for instance, python, do a quick google search and find your answer. do the same for as3 and wade thru pages and pages of misinformed crap and people taking shots in the dark.
- This comment is so correct that everyone else should just stop commenting...dMullins
- The interface for flash is awful. This is probably what needs improvement to make designers and developers happy.ayport
- happy.ayport
- The IDE? LOL. Most serious Flash programmers don't even fuck with the Flash IDE.dMullins
- exactly my point, so why is the ide so shittyayport
- that's because as3 is a pseudo computer language, a bastardized thing.spraycan
- fues1
- CyBrainX0
I have to create a screensaver this month. IT says Instant Storm is the way to go. It's Flash based.
- enter the closest iron shop, buy something form the israeli open-bolt blowback family, fill it with love, introduce the tool to IT, say: I think I will use thissted
- I've use screentime in the past. also flash based.
http://download.cnet…dbloc
- SteveJobs1
I do think Jobs killed flash, but only as the final nail in the coffin as illustrated above. And not directly, mind you, and certainly not all by himself.
Adobe didn't do their due diligence with the technology either. They jumped from a simple UI and a reasonably understandable (for most) AS 2.0 to the world of OO and they gave novice developers (and let's face it, this is the core of who was developing flash apps) too much rope to hang themselves with. These so-called developers knew nothing of garbage collection or memory management or using patterns for designing applications to run efficiently and thus you had flash applications that had the simple job of displaying a banner ad that would single-handedly take down a browser.
As a result, the non-tech world and even the somewhat tech savvy that 'knew a little php - or whatever' but have never done any real program whole-heartedly bought into the notion, while firmly grasping their Steve Jobs prayer beads, that flash itself was to blame and that it was an outdated, inferior technology. With the propogation of this notion that flash sucked as a technology the bandwagoners (and i'm pointing at most of you) brought this browser technology to a screeching halt.
In the early two thousands I might have cared as I appreciated and supported what the technology was and what it could do. Today I'm far removed from the tedium of typical web development and could mostly care less... ...except, I really did enjoy the rare creativity that the few, who knew, could squeeze out of it and bring us something purely enjoyable. But hey.. web standards and all that... flash is nonsense and the Web is serious business! Out with the old and in with the new!
- fadein110
^ browse harder - anything that Flash could do can be done with latest browser technologies and is being done. Do people forget how many shit flash splash pages there were and how much gratuitous flash bollocks there was just because it was so easy to do the simple stuff - thank the lord that has gone.
- twokids0
So Xerox created the first GUI in the 70s and then Xerox sued Apple and then Apple sued Microsoft when they did Windows.
I am guessing that somewhere, the things Apple said they invented were actually done first elsewhere. They are really good at making their user base think they invented everything first. My guess, the suit goes nowhere.
- and why sue HTC insted of Google, HTC doesn't make android...GeorgesII
- But HTC implements the technology...Google doesn't physically make anything running Android...it's a proxy war.WrappedInBooks
- GeorgesII0
Its crazy that apple users are the only one constantly finding reasons to defend their allegiance to a brand that keep on screwing them,
its the abusive husband paradigm x 1000
- yeah. loyalty beyond reason....why? hard to say.twokids
- haha well said, my man!!!Projectile
- quantelpaintbox0
Looks like Apple managed to bully Adobe into finally getting off their arses with their piece of shit plugin
- ...or, you have no fucking clue.rounce
- I have a clue that it runs like fucking shit till recentlyquantelpaintbox
- must_dash0
Good to see Adobe suddenly have something to worry about... Not sure why everyone is going on about HTML5, as jQuery is more powerful at the moment.
- JQuery and HTML5 are not comparable like that LOLquantelpaintbox
- one is scripting one is markupquantelpaintbox
- They are comparable as both are alternatives to Flash, but will be used in conjunction in the future, but not yet. LOLmust_dash
- ernexbcn0
hey, Adobe's just finally being able to get a decent player for mobile devices, after 3 years from the 1st iPhone was released, and I believe this player 10.1 is not even out yet, so yeah, Apple was being right about it, this piece of software simple didn't existed
- twokids0
yeah, but that is a phone, where the internet stuff was new and so people accepted the limitations, since it was so cool that you could just do that.
and for an ipad, with which you are supposed to be able to 'hold the internet in your hands' (except of course for flash and java)
It is interesting that they show the NYTimes on the ipad (Jobs on stage) as an example. How will you view those cool multimedia interactive graphics they do at the NY Times using Flash? whoops! can't.if you have a situation where you can choose between a google product that is truly open source, runs flash, java, etc...and apple, which is proprietary, well, i think apple will lose a lot of people, and over time, a lot more.
there is a reason that Apple has 10% market share of computers, where for a time in the 80s they were a serious player vs. intel/microsoft. that same mentality.