Flash is back?
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- PonyBoy0
- 'drop those pelts alaskan hunter guy i'm com in in for a quick hug..'prophetone
- hotroddy0
The CANVAS tag is very similar to Actionscript in respect to having a 'stage' instead of a DOM.
- chossy0
I had to update an old clients site, it is all flash. They just wanted a logo changed and a few back ground images swapped out etc.
It was a real pleasure dipping into flash again, clicky click, import, place, tappy tap, change text make it an email link cmd return... yeo looks good, upload. Great fun. I just told them they could have it all for free it was just such a nice wee change. I really miss flash it was absolutely enjoyable creating things with it.
- cannonball19780
just stop already. stop it.
- uan0
- animatedgif0
"hard to believe people still arguing on this."
But Flash developers don't have souls so they're not reallllly "people"
- utopian0
Boz Bump
- lolernexbcn
- Why do they call it the "Xbox One" when Boz will buy 3 of them?animatedgif
- jhey0
"Which one of these cross platform tools do rate the most?"
http://www.riaxe.com/blog/top-cr…
- chrisRG0
hard to believe people still arguing on this.
even worst people who take one side, if you are preaching that you must use this or that, you're probably in the wrong job/position.
- Exactly. Flash was/is wonderful for some of us, just like HTML is boring for many of us...depends on your needsformed
- animatedgif0
> RIA
> Written in FlashJust kill me now
Who the fuck wants to use awfully coded non-native text boxes, combo boxes, scrollbars etc
- Irafis0
We are developing a RIA for a multinational client entirely in Flash. It runs on the company extranet and connected with SAP. When we found out that most users were still using IE 8 and slow computers (Africa and Asia), Flash was the only and best solution we could find. Flash is not just for websites, you can build great an stable piece of software with it.
- I can see that. kudos for picking a technology based on your users needs rather than dogma.monNom
- omg0
- omg0
- I imagine Microsoft paid for this.instrmntl
- They most certainly did.animatedgif
- Netflix was built on Silverlightmonkeyshine
- chossy0
It's really simple.
Flash = Totally rad sites that look the same on whatever browser you are using and do cool shit.
HTML5 = Pot luck and enjoy your blog / template. Here is a big bill.
- lolhereswhatidid
- Your first post says you are primarily a front end / wordpress coder... so yeah enjoy your blog.chossy
- enjoy your dead platform :)hereswhatidid
- It's back coder :D haven't you heard.chossy
- export to html5 canvas != return of all flash web sites, not by a long shothereswhatidid
- either way, I'm not going to argue about flash being back. like I said, flash was great for a while, now the web has moved onhereswhatidid
- onhereswhatidid
- well said chossy.Hombre_Lobo
- evilpeacock0
Don't forget that the Flash plug-in and Java runtimes have been the number one security liability for years. Most malware exploits involve one of the two.
- As well as PDFukit2
- specifically the Acrobat plugin. PDF itself is fine.hereswhatidid
- Adobe has 2 of the three big security messses here hmmmmmvaxorcist
- hereswhatidid0
Flash did a fine job with exactly those specific use cases you guys keep bringing up but it had far too many major flaws to be useful for the vast majority of web sites. Printing, SEO, CMS integration, linking, accessibility, etc... These are things that you'd be hard pressed to get a client to be willing to ditch in order to make it "creative"
- if it worked on an iPhone, clients would line up for it, all those things you mention weren't a problemformed
- Sorry, flash doesn't have a problem with printing? SEO?hereswhatidid
- You gotta be just trolling to make a statement like that.hereswhatidid
- ukit20
Those smaller sites are exactly the ones that benefit IMHO from HTML5. Because let's face it Flash was not particularly great for SEO, for large amounts of text, for making a site easy to manage and update. With HTML5, they can have at least some animation/interactivity without relying on a plugin and departing from the standard format of the web.
What I liked most about Flash were the higher end sites that really pushed the capability of what was possible. For the little guy, HTML and yes, something like WordPress are actually a better option in most cases.
- Sure, just like HTML before it. I prefer to aim for the higher end sites.formed
- I had to quote more for Flash projects than HTML-based ones on average.evilpeacock