Is it time to abandon Flash?
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- ********
Is there a need to continue on with Flash? Sadly all the time and effort put into learning Flash, it looks like the world has caught up and there is simply no need for Flash. Unless you are creating cross browser video games with Flash, its utterly useless.
- craighooper0
Yes, give it up now. Throw away all that time and energy spent learning the basics of the application, and throw all your eggs into another basket.
- fxone0
Flash = Kraken
- ideaist0
http://www.richielau.com/project… uses flash no?!
- ukit0
oh-no-not-this-shit-again.jpg
- fxone0
learn Maya
- letterhead0
f w a type sites are still cool, right? how would you do stuff like that without flash?
- instrmntl0
theres a lot of rad shit you can do with sound. also, as far as content over video, say, having a shopping network integrated with commercials or a television show, it has so much potential. all these people saying flash is dead are mindless sheep. i like html over flash of course, but flash has a lot of capabilities that aren't being used. the problem is, its overused in advertising. sites are made in flash because of browser compatablility when they should be in html/js. thats just pure laziness, lack of budget, etc. flash just needs to be sued correctly.
flash went through the same battle when css because big. everything thought jacob neilson was god and gonna take over the internets. same shit, different flavor.
- oops, used not suedinstrmntl
- good point********
- sense talk on qbn? somebody check his crystal... CAROUSEL!!kingsteven
- sigg0
without flash how will i make my websites "pop"
- instrmntl0
its the whole mac vs pc. its an endless, useless debate.
- sigg0
how will i make them "hip" and "edgy"?
- ********0
- DrBombay0
Learn Bryce and VRML
- ********0
Adobe spends all this money to convert flash to iphone apps, when they should have spent the money to export fully functional HTML and javascript.
- Pixter0
Html5 runs like shit
- ukit0
I think the answer is yes, but not today or anytime soon.
In the short term you'll see more use of JS for your everyday UI animation needs (animated nav, fading through images, etc). This has already happened for the most part.
Slightly further out, we'll see more and more HTML5 video replacing Flash video - and a little further out from that, rich web apps like Mozilla's Bespin project popping up. The technology is almost there but it won't be feasible on a mass scale until the release of IE9. In the meantime, you'll see more and more solutions that deliver video in different formats depending on the client used to access the site.
- ********0
Or better yet, just open source actionscript.
