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- ernexbcn0
Adobe is the sole responsible of this whole brouhaha, in the first place it took them more than 3 years to come up with a quasi decente Flash Mobile Player, and in the meantime they cried like babies.
For fucks sake.
- Continuity0
You know, when Macromedia took Flash in the 90s, they were pushing it on people hard. Really hard. It was a new-fangled thing, and they were putting the marketing spin on that it was the future of the web, bla bla bla, all sites would be in Flash, HTML coders were lamenting that they might be made redundant as a result, graphic designers (especially those coming from print) thought the same thing and on, and on, and on.
It's 2010, and the HTML-marked up Web hasn't gone anywhere ... but then, neither has Flash. After a few years of outright abuse of the technology, it's settled down to the point Flash is mostly used where it's needed, and there's a good reason behind its use*. Meanwhile, those in whose interest it was to stay relevant in the market have gone on to learn the skills involed, either as designers or AS developers (sometimes both).
The same will happy with HTML5. It's the new black. Everyone and their fucking grandma will use it for absolutely everything under the sun, until more sensible heads prevail and realise it's not the catch-all solution. Then we'll go back to the technology being used where it's really needed, along with Flash.
All of this talk and hype about HTML5 being the game-changer, the Flash-killer, The Mother of All Intert00bz Languages is florid rhetorical smoke that will not change games, kill Flash, or be the mother of anything. It's marketing fluff that is being spouted by companies in whose interest it is to make money off the technology, trying to pull the wool over the eyes of those who can actually cut through the clutter and make rational decisions based on objectives and client needs.
*That said, there are still a few hold-outs who abuse Flash like it was 1997.
- Mm. Typo-rrific.Continuity
- im with you!gosche
- well said. how long did that takemydo
- ukit0
I don't think any of us have a crystal ball and can predict the future. All I know is, the days of Flash dominating web design are over.
All of the angst over this is ironic in a way because even before this whole flare up designers were turning away from Flash. In 2000, if you had a cool design site it was almost second nature to build it in Flash. In 2009, the attitude had shifted towards "simple is good" and "just focus on the content." How many designer portfolios did you see over the last couple years that deliberately mimicked what was once done in Flash with JS?
You can point the finger at Apple and Steve Jobs, but really the blood is on all of our hands. We killed Flash.
- We can't predict the future, but we can learn from how things happened in the past, and make reasonable presumptions going forward based on that.Continuity
- ... forward based on that.Continuity
- Well, it's a given HTML5 will replace HTML4, just like HTML4 replaced the earlier version, so I think it's fair to say its not all smoke and mirrorsukit
- smoke and mirrorsukit
- I agree. However, the web is much more than just designers portfolios.fyoucher1
- Continuity0
That's partly what I'm saying, though ukit; the days of Flash dominating web design have been over for a number of years, now, because it's simply not feasible (right now, anyway) to have an all-Flash web. It's clunky for portals, pointless for three- or four-page sites, and downright stupid to attempt to use it for eCommerce.
Flash has found its niches, finally, in campaign sites, rich media banners and hybrid sties.
- autoflavour0
anyway, getting back to internet porn.. yep, cant watch cam4.com on the ipad.
cmon.. like what the fuck..
- ukit0
I guess when you fap using the iPad, it a workout for both hands