Flash served its purpose for a long time. It brought us a more powerful Web, and helped shift it from its hypertext-based roots to something far more interactive and useful, beginning as early as the late 1990s. And now, Flash's time has officially passed—on mobile devices and otherwise.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2396094,00.asp#fbid=wVKyNx0lD3j
Probably the only thing Count Gregore will be talking about this weekend
ReplyDeleteLots of hatred out there for Flash. What a sad day. Kiss that tool in my belt goodbye. F!@#$&%$ software engineers and their BS.
ReplyDeleteSome are saying Flash threaten's Apple's monopoly in the app arena.
ReplyDeleteI have my own share of hatred for Flash.
ReplyDeleteOn a daily basis My mac says "unresponsive script, would you like to stop the script?" while it grinds away taking up all the processing power trying to get over the speedbump of giving me a half-assed animated banner ad.
That is Adobe's fault. Should have spent the last 10 years streamlining it's architecture. But they didn't.
ReplyDeleteAdobe Edge may be the next stage but the beta LOOKS very limited compared to Flash
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