That is also it's unique selling point. Without that, well, there are other possibly better suited cross platform solutions available as well.
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Adobe Discontinues Development of Flash Player on Mobile Devices
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That is also it's unique selling point. Without that, well, there are other possibly better suited cross platform solutions available as well.
I'd just like to point out that performance isn't the only issue with trying to run flash on these devices. Many flash apps just don't work right on a touchscreen. Specifically those that rely on mouse hover and/or key bindings.
If that was indeed the case, you wouldnt see people proclaiming that HTML5 is ready to replace Flash, and that h264 > Flash.
I assume you're some flash fanatic? I guess you choose to like inefficient things that suck very badly.
lol this is the type of comments i would expect from the android fanboys that when flash finally came out on their phones rejoiced that they had a feature the iPhone didnt, even though it never matter. I dont have to go any further look at all your negatives...lol
But none of them have yet to gain any traction. Java FX seems like a lost opportunity, and i doubt that thing Google is pushing will succeed any time soon either. So yeah. What solutions, really?
The first version of HTML came out several years before Adobe Flash did, so by your logic we should be retiring HTML as well. The reality is that Flash from 1996 is nothing like Flash in 2011. Just like how HTML 2.0 in 1995 is totally different to HTML5 in 2011.
EXCELLENT example! I agree that Humanity needs to get away from fossil fuels for a number of reasons (high cost, finite supply, environmental impact etc.), but the alternatives are either not fully baked or are too expensive to implement.
The same can be said of Flash and Web Standards.
The HTML5 <video> tag allows you to play a video in a web page, but Flash can do far more than just play the video. That's why YouTube isn't using HTML5 Video by default and why it's not available on all videos. For many organisations it simply wont work as well as a Flash implementation will.
The same can be said of features like SVG, Canvas, Web Sockets etc.
Over time these features will get better as the specification is developed and as web browsers implement these features. RIGHT NOW Flash is going to make a lot more sense for many sites.
That is not what we are talking about here. We are talking about that HTML5 is a newborn and can be ready to take over flash when its more mature. At this point it can handle many tasks better then flash. But, not all. So when that time comes i would prefer to have no flash on the web. I personally never liked it and the #1 reason my mac/pc crash is because of this god awful plugin. And who the hell wants to hear " congratulations! you just won a brand new ipod! " over their speakers not knowingly? flash ads are incredibly annoying and its a security rish.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A334 Safari/7534.48.3)
Oh, man, I can't wait to see how the Flash-addicted spin this announcement! I'm literally LOLing!
Paging Flashmaster Knight...
Oh, man, I can't wait to see how the Flash-addicted spin this announcement! I'm literally LOLing!
Paging Flashmaster Knight...
Agreed. Flash has a birhtday of nearly 10 years or more. HTML5 is barely 2 mainstream. Give it a couple of more years and watch it go beyond anyones expectations.
Stopping to support (which they havent really) != Flash no longer working on these devices.
HTML is not executing, it's only markup, if the parsing is slow or not comes down to your browser. Parsing HTML is not a hard problem (or at least XHTML
).And when is that? As in, when will such changes shine through? 2020?
Im no fan of Flash either, but that is no justification for ignorance.
p.s.
How will HTML5 ads saying "congratulations! you just won a brand new ipod!" be any better?
Flash is not to blame for ads being annyoing. Ad makers are.
Yay
People need to start using html5 more, why is flash still so popular when they could just as easily use html5 to work on any device basically? You might way flash works on more devices but computers don't come with it. It's just as easy to download an updated browser (and more important) as it is to download a cpu hogging extension.
People need to start using html5 more, why is flash still so popular when they could just as easily use html5 to work on any device basically? You might way flash works on more devices but computers don't come with it. It's just as easy to download an updated browser (and more important) as it is to download a cpu hogging extension.
Flash was around for a long time. Some things take a while to die. Some folks take a while to wake up to reality.
A chicken with its head cut off still runs around like a maniac. Give it some time.
I wonder if this spells relief for Steve Jobs' family, like they're all waking up this morning saying "Dad can rest easier knowing that Flash is surely fading away!"
As an iDevice user, I hadn't noticed. We've been Flash-free from Day 1, and nary a complaint.
Yup, the Nike website is a horror to navigate. You'd think a massive global brand like Nike would have made the move years ago. Their website makes me want to gouge my eyeballs.
People talk about killing Flash and that it's some fault of website owners for still using it - but the issue revolves more around the designers creating the sites using Flash.
The alternative technologies need to push designers forward if the change-over is going to happen.
Another issue is that even instituting the change costs money and if a website owner has already spent their budget on their site, you're not going to see any change happen until the next budget cycle - and if the designer they have working on their site doesn't know how to design around something other than Flash, then it becomes even more problematic.
The alternative technologies need to push designers forward if the change-over is going to happen.
Another issue is that even instituting the change costs money and if a website owner has already spent their budget on their site, you're not going to see any change happen until the next budget cycle - and if the designer they have working on their site doesn't know how to design around something other than Flash, then it becomes even more problematic.