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No. It was designed for desktops, as Jobs stated in his thoughts, it really requires a keyboard and a mouse for most SWF's to work properly. It also became fea
by nicetryguy 6y ago
No.
It was designed for desktops, as Jobs stated in his thoughts, it really requires a keyboard and a mouse for most SWF's to work properly. It also became feature rich and power hungry at a time when Mobile devices were taking off, so it was never going to run on the mobile devices of the day. This is all besides the fact that its custom networking features were proprietary, highly exploitable and notoriously buggy.
It was great for it's day, and still has features and advantages in animation and networking that JS Canvas or Node can't equal today; but it had to go. I loved Flash and worked as an AS3 dev professionally, so i wanted it to succeed as much as anyone, but it did not adapt or fix its issues so it had to die. Good riddance.