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My experience doesn't match your statements at all. I run a Flash website (it's a game), and Flash is pretty much rock solid for me. My site has been up over

by Fizzer 15y ago

My experience doesn't match your statements at all. I run a Flash website (it's a game), and Flash is pretty much rock solid for me. My site has been up over 3 years, has over 80k lines of Actionscript, and I can count the number of times I've seen Flash crash on one hand. Even if you include reports from my users who have Flash crash on them, the number is less than 20. That's probably not too far from any software - including browsers themselves. I'm not a huge Flash fan or anything; I don't care much for Actionscript as a language and I'm constantly looking at switching to HTML5, which I'm sure I'll have to do eventually. But Flash crashes aren't really an issue for me at all. I wonder if your poor experiences in Flash are created by the developer of those specific Flash applications that are crashing. Personally, I think the Flash 11 features are amazing and, even if Flash may be losing relevance, I think Adobe's going in the right direction with it.

dmix 15y ago
Thats somewhat anedotal for one website / flash game. My own anecdotal experience from coming across flash sites while browsing for the last 11 years (that I remember) and spending two years developing flash sites, is that it has always been slow and crashes often. And most importantly the stability hasn't seemed to improve over time like everything else on the internet. Especially on OSX.
jessicarios 15y ago
Any stats on how many people avoid your site because it's flash? Or perhaps people that avoid your site because flash eats up their power. While you might have a successful site, that doesn't mean it's a good technology. You also can't necessarily tell when someone using your site has a crash.
- Fizzer 15y ago
  Flash is the de-facto standard for web-based gaming, so I don't think any significant number of players on a desktop computer avoids it due to it being Flash.

by Fizzer 15y ago

dmix 15y ago

Thats somewhat anedotal for one website / flash game. My own anecdotal experience from coming across flash sites while browsing for the last 11 years (that I remember) and spending two years developing flash sites, is that it has always been slow and crashes often. And most importantly the stability hasn't seemed to improve over time like everything else on the internet. Especially on OSX.

jessicarios 15y ago

Any stats on how many people avoid your site because it's flash? Or perhaps people that avoid your site because flash eats up their power. While you might have a successful site, that doesn't mean it's a good technology. You also can't necessarily tell when someone using your site has a crash.

Fizzer 15y ago
Flash is the de-facto standard for web-based gaming, so I don't think any significant number of players on a desktop computer avoids it due to it being Flash.