Blame Apple for not properly releasing APIs that support your hardware. Of course, you would never dream of blaming Apple even though they are responsible, best deflect unto Adobe.
So you know Tim Berners-Lee and worked with him on the initial release of the www ? How was WWW on NeXTSTEP ?
Hint, the WWW came about in 1991. It didn't take off immediately as far as "web design" goes. I really doubt you've been at it 20 years.
Wait, you've been doing the web thing 20 years (before the web even existed) and you've only studied scripting since about 2004 ? Talk about a late bloomer. You were doing what before 2004 ? Geocities pages with animated gifs ? Javascript, DOM scripting and CSS were already very important back in 1999 unless you liked table based layouts.
Blaming font size and blurriness on Flash, site navigation faults on Flash, etc.. You really sound like a kid who's never done this, especially with your "years" being all over the place and completely irrelevant to reality. Hint, navigation, font faces/sizes have nothing to do with the technology and everything to do with the designer. You can have a **** site in HTML5 and a beautiful site in Flash and vice versa.
I have been doing computer graphics for well over twenty years. Some of the first networking we had was intra-office and small local networks. No graphics at that time, all bulletin board systems, and I have been in this field (computer based design) since 1987, print graphics mostly at the beginning and before that I did all old style graphic design, with pens, line tape and stat cameras.
But bottomline, I was working on networks so early that the world wide web wasn't really in place yet. And not that I owe you any explanation, but as a graphic artist, my web work was mostly visual for many years, I didn't try to program scripting until fairly recently (and actually it was more like seven or eight years ago I started to study javascript - time flies!)
I am not a kid by any means, hint, I was born in the late 50's. I did work with Flash when it started to get more popular, but I preferred to stick with clean coding in my webpages and not depend on Flash because some things are easier to do in it. I have said many times here, I have gotten paid over and over again to take Flash based websites and convert it to html and CSS based. I have a huge portfolio of websites I have done, do you? Where is your Flash portfolio if you think it is such great stuff?
One thing I do agree with you on is that some people make the most horrendous Flash sites and that KitchenMade site was the worst I have seen, mostly because I couldn't read the information, and when I am getting ready to shell out $350-$500 for a mixer I want to know what I am getting. I was also on Jenn-air's website recently to get a gas cooktop (yes, I love to cook) they had a Flash website too, I couldn't get any information at all from that site unless I allowed the Flash to play. That is super bad marketing and for what? A few animations on the links? At least that site was readable, but each page took forever to load. Just an awful experience. I am very excited about the new changes in html, especially since it involves javascript and not Actionscript. We will be able to do more and more cool things without the drawbacks of being forced to use the Flash Player.
But as far as my laptop goes, I am not sure why Apple would release APIs to newer machines and not older ones. I could also be that the graphic cards wouldn't be compatible. Does anyone know? I don't know that much about hardware, my focus is pretty much always on the software.
