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Why still no flash support on Safari?
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Adobe has stopped supporting flash on all mobile devices so it will never exist on Apple or any mobile device in the future.
Flash is a dying service. It's a resource and battery hog, the cause of many crashes, and is being almost universally replaced by better formats.
Android supported Flash but it seems even they want to abandon it, as it is now no longer available on current Android devices.
Android supported Flash but it seems even they want to abandon it, as it is now no longer available on current Android devices.
Even Adobe is done with Flash for mobile devices, as of November 2011.
"We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc.)..."
http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2011/11/flash-focus.html
"We will no longer continue to develop Flash Player in the browser to work with new mobile device configurations (chipset, browser, OS version, etc.)..."
http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2011/11/flash-focus.html
Flash is like the Hummer lineup of vehicles. It was a fad for a while and very popular but then people just realized that it wasn't worth the resources.
Because there's nothing that anybody has really missed that much on Safari mobile that hasn't been retooled using HTML 5. Apple usually leans toward supporting open standards -- HTML 5 is, Flash isn't -- and Flash has never worked well enough to get included in Safari mobile.
HTML 5 still needs work, but developers are either using it or going the app route if they need to make something fancy.
HTML 5 still needs work, but developers are either using it or going the app route if they need to make something fancy.
Wow, OP, I know this wasn't a recommendation thread, but Puffin Browser is amazing! I'd been using Skyfire to play .flv's with limited success, but Puffin can even manage to play .swf's! I didn't think this would be possible without a jailbreak, and even Frash went out of development.
I have nothing to say against those who think Flash is on its way out the door, but it's nice to have support while the rest of the internet catches up to you guys.
I have nothing to say against those who think Flash is on its way out the door, but it's nice to have support while the rest of the internet catches up to you guys.
That's a gross misrepresentation of Flash. A fad is something that is popular because of it's novelty and when it's novelty wears off it loses popularity. Flash is not and was not a fad.
Flash was a technology that allowed you to manipulate vectors and provide animation and other cool things. For a very long time it was the easiest and most efficient way to handle animation for web developers.
Flash lost it's popularity, not because it's novelty wore off, but because new technologies provided better ways to do the same things.
Calling flash a fad is like calling standard def TV a fad. SD TV isn't losing popularity because it's novelty is fading, but because new and better technology is replacing it. That's a big difference.
Flash did and still does so much more than ads. It revolutionized web design. Not always for the better but it involved way more than just ads.
And just for the record, I'm glad it's dying.
flash NEVER revolutionized web design. it was used to add a bit of sparkle here and there, but for the most part it was ridiculously overused. the only major longstanding benefit was widespread and secure video playback support.
Don't confuse poor developers with good developers.
Crappy web developers (and there were a lot of them) over used it and used it poorly. Good web designers used Flash to do thing that couldn't be easily done without it. Not only did they make things look good with flash but they made web pages better and easier to use. The best Flash sites were the ones that most people didn't even know used Flash. Flash most certainly helped influence HTML5 and CSS3 that we are starting to see today.