Calling all Flash defenders
- Started 15 years ago
- Last post 15 years ago
- 9 Responses
- kpl
"Just how bad is Flash on Android? Pretty bad. In fact, if you’re thinking video, utterly unusable."
http://www.technovia.co.uk/2010/…
Any of you haters willing to concede that it's at least plausible that Apple excluded Flash on purely on technical grounds?
- kpl0
this one, actually: http://www.technovia.co.uk/2010/…
- monospaced0
I concede that it's more than "at least" plausible.
- instrmntl0
Just because mobile devices have the processing and computing power of a computer in 2001 is hardly a reason to decalre flash dead. Eventually mobile will catch up to now.
- yeah mobile is behindeieio
- mobile is a completely different beast. It's not a G3 in a pocket. No one wants to realize this.kpl
- So by argument, it shouldn't be used as a litmus test for flash, correct?instrmntl
- it means Flash shouldn't be on mobile, period.kpl
- I agree to a large extent. Flash, in cases where it's being used as a standalone app, is more than likely too processor intensive for mobile at the moment.instrmntl
- moment.instrmntl
- what? so because providers are optimizing their flash content for desktop, ban flash?kingsteven
- When I started working on a 1 ghz machine, Flash couldn't even display video.kingsteven
- Continuity0
Christ on a fucking crutch, mobile devices are by far not the only computing platform, nor will they be for the forseeable future.
- In other words: who the fuck cares about this shit anymore?Continuity
- just those who want to say, 'i told you so," really.kpl
- hell yeszr
- ********0
Oh god .. the irony - I've just watched the video in the article on my phone, full screen / no problems at all.
- same here. ON MY IPHONE.kpl
- or, I really don't think you were using flash to view that video.kpl
- neither of you were...the site detects a mobile device and I believe hosts HTML5 videomonospaced
- Yes, but then there's the irony: I was using the Android Flash player to view the video.********
- monospaced; I had to activate the flash player to view it.********
- utopian0
Apple needs to get their own software on their iPhones working right before they start complaining about Flash running on it.
- moldero0
no flash on my iPhone big deal, theres no Adobe apps on it either. phones are for fucking calling people.
- Miguex0
breaks glass bottle ( mexi-coke) on the desk, stands up and yells:
Are we doing this?!! LETS GO!