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A bad programmer would find a way to write an unsafe, bug ridden program regardless of the programming language's safety features - even Haskell. Kill flash, k
by vezycash 12y ago
A bad programmer would find a way to write an unsafe, bug ridden program regardless of the programming language's safety features - even Haskell.
Kill flash, kill flash and your browser will still freeze with rouge JavaScript/html5 animations.
At least with flash, you can easily turn it off without losing 20% functionality on most sites. Turn off JavaScript and you would lose more than 80% usability on most sites including Facebook.
Btw, in early 2000's sites were going crazy with flash only sites. The same is happening right now - sites that won't work if JavaScript is turned off.
If Adobe kills flash, your browser will still crash, use 100% CPU. Hence won't change a thing. In fact would be worse because you can't turn it off.
- agumonkey 12y agoThe progressive degradation / enhancement trend has definitely faded away. Nowadays it's far too often all (js) or nothing.
- vezycash 12y agoFlash on mobile would have worked - even on iPhone but it didn't for a few simple business reasons. Control - Jobs wanted every semblance of an "app" to go through the app store. Flash would have wrestled control of the iPhone from Apple. Summary - with this view, Jobs advocated HTML simply because it was crippled. I couldn't pull out better arguments for the ffg: 1. cost - using bigger batteries and cpu would have solved the problem. 2. Reflow - flash apps written for desktop wouldn't look good on mobile. At the end of the day, companies spin announcement to suit their own (unannounced) agendas.