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Many people hated flash years before the iPhone came out. Our reasons still hold.
by maw 16y ago
Many people hated flash years before the iPhone came out. Our reasons still hold.
- Steltek 16y agoAnd many of those reasons are going to be equally applicable to HTML5. I don't know if people have considered what all these new browser toys mean. * Ever more obnoxious ads * Longer load times * System lag * Instability, security (complexity == bugs) * Persistent supercookies
- mortenjorck 16y agoTo me, the only reason to hate Flash is that Adobe has continued to market it as a platform for things it's just not appropriate for. A VM is not appropriate for banner ads. A VM is not appropriate for a restaurant menu. A VM is appropriate for a complex RIA such as http://www.audiotool.com http://www.audiotool.com . I think there would be a lot less hate for Flash if Macromedia and later Adobe had stuck to promoting it as an RIA environment and not as a solution to everything else.
- olihb 16y agoI think Adobe is starting to get it with Flex. Flex is really nice to develop BI widgets and dashboards. We use it to present interactive data to our clients. I can whip up a dashboard binded to a DB in a matters of hours. I'm not sure that's possible with html5 or javafx. I'm not talking about the end result but the time frame. But yeah, flash for banner ads, simple video players, etc. sucks.