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This whole functionality / standards / etc.... for mobile is so lame. All it has done is helped create a block of filtered Internet viewers who don't realize they are ..... filtered.
Flash is on its way out - given.
The currently is not standard replacement for flash - given.
That leaves us, the user with exactly what?
When I browse the Internet on an iPad, a Transformer, a Windows PC, I get different results for all. PC> Transformer > iPad. Phones fall into the same framework.
Flash is ding, great. But what is going to allow me to view the "complete" Internet on a mobile device? Steve may have done a favor long term. Short term he just leashed us.
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Still can't believe this didn't result in Apple being sued in the European courts.
How is this really any different from the MS/Netscape issue? One huge company with a large market share tramples all over another company.
How is this really any different from the MS/Netscape issue? One huge company with a large market share tramples all over another company.
Apple did not trample over Adobe. Adobe is not likely to go out of business like Netscape did. Please remember that Adobe has many other products than just Flash (e.g. Photoshop, Acrobat). The issue of MS vs. Netscape was that MS was coercing OEMs to not ship Windows PCs with anything that competed with Internet Explorer with Windows pricing. That was the abuse of MSs monopoly power. Flash is one technology of Adobe (actually acquired Macromedia Labs, which had previously acquired FutureSplash where the idea of Flash was born), and it is supported on Max OS X. But Flash is power hungry and that shortens battery life, thus making it unsuitable for the mobile arena. On my Galaxy Tab 10.1, when running Flash, battery life is considerably shorter compared using other video technology.
It is a crying shame that Adobe got cold feet and deliver on the Flex/Flash development combo for mobile devices. Agreed it was hugely ambitious to attempt 1 coding environment to fit all devices and hope they ran as efficiently and economically as native developed apps - but it was some way down the tracks in delivering this vision when it hit the buffers. Jobs just brought those buffers into view a damn sight quicker and we are now left with no elegant alternatives. HTML5 is still marketing over substance in MHO - it doesn't take too much digging to realise - how much of a pain the if then ... gets to be and for what? A less than satisfying graphical poor relation to Flash in the first place?
Mobiles are limited platforms. For now, I would greatly prefer a slightly more utilitarian site.
For that matter, even on the desktop, I hate sites that require Flash -- it's usually gratuitous and in no way improves the experience of the visit. It *does* mean another plugin. For most people that's no big deal, but in the Linux community, it can be a real PITA. Not to mention the *numerous* security vulnerabilities. And resultant constant update notifications.
If I had ever met Jobs, I would've high-fived him for that call. Someone needed to kill it.
For that matter, even on the desktop, I hate sites that require Flash -- it's usually gratuitous and in no way improves the experience of the visit. It *does* mean another plugin. For most people that's no big deal, but in the Linux community, it can be a real PITA. Not to mention the *numerous* security vulnerabilities. And resultant constant update notifications.
If I had ever met Jobs, I would've high-fived him for that call. Someone needed to kill it.
Can you be sure that when IE8 finally dies that we won't be adding "canvas blockers" to our browsers to get rid of resource hungry banner ads? In the not too distant future Flash (maybe even someone else) will be letting you choose to export as Flash or Canvas with all of the cpu intensive problems of multi-layer, multi-effect animation.
Over all of these forums about Flash, the biggest problem that most people seem to have with it is that it allows so many people to do exactly what they want so easily, and it won't be too long before you'll be able to do the same with canvas.
Over all of these forums about Flash, the biggest problem that most people seem to have with it is that it allows so many people to do exactly what they want so easily, and it won't be too long before you'll be able to do the same with canvas.
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