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Flash is transitioning from a platform for websites to a platform for high-performance code, such as gaming, graphical simulations, etc... Whatever strides WebG
by vosper 15y ago
Flash is transitioning from a platform for websites to a platform for high-performance code, such as gaming, graphical simulations, etc... Whatever strides WebGL might be making at the moment it's a long way from the kind of things Flash 11 is capable of. If Adobe can keep the barrier to entry lower on Flash than WebGL then they ought to have a viable product.
Unfortunately for many Flash developers the bread-and-butter site stuff is going away; if you're not skilled enough to transition into gaming and other such computationally intensive work then best to familiarise yourself with the HTML5 suite, and quickly.
- yuhong 15y agoDon't forget cryptography. Flash 11 have a secure random number generator.
- Animus7 15y agoWith the countless and varied security holes that Adobe's Flash implementation has had over the years, I don't think having a "secure" RNG counts for much.
- cryptoz 15y agoAre you being sarcastic? Flash is the worst possible place to do cryptography. You should never do closed-source crypto, especially not when a company like Adobe is involved. That would be a security disaster.
- yuhong 15y agoExcept that JavaScript crypto is even worse.