Certain factions within Adobe seem to think that HTML & Friends can do 80% of what Flash Player can do on the web today 1. That’s fine. It may be true- things have certainly progressed in a very positive way with web standards over the past few years, thank goodness!
But what of that other 20%? That’s a big chunk of stuff where Flash Player can really shine. That’s the sort of stuff I do with Flash. Not simple animations… not basic interactions… the stuff that just shouldn’t be possible over the web today… and what drives the web forward tomorrow.
This is where Flash shines.
This is where Flash Player fits into my workflow.
I am the 20%. 2
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1 It isn’t the fact that HTML & Friends can do a lot of what Flash Player has traditionally done for the web which irritates me. What I find frustrating in conversations like this is when people begin aggressively undermining the balance and opportunity available to us when using both sets of technologies together in an effort to minimize and ghettoize Flash Player and Flash technologies.
2 Yes, an obvious play on the whole Occupy Movement. This whole post is mostly tongue-in-cheek, though I am quite serious about the un-necessary and antagonistic undermining of Flash Player by forces within Adobe, itself.
I am the 20% too. Shame some at Adobe are attempting to undermine and jeopardise years of their own hard work.
Yeah. It’s gross. The web is an open field where anyone can play. Not a segregated, step-in-line, my-way-or-else gated community.
But it’s not true. Five minutes on caniuse.com would show Arno Gourdol’s claim is b.s.
And that doesn’t take into account all the cross browser headaches.
Spot on Joseph, couldn’t agree with you more!
I definitely fit into the 20% category as well, but there’s more to it than feature parity. It needs to be mentioned loudly and clearly that achieving that 80% compatibility takes 150%-200% more resource to do so. In business, money talks, so it’s a must that this message reaches those folks in the position of steering the technology used.
I’ve been bandying about the idea of creating canairdo.it for the last week or so – mainly to counter the complete hash Adobe’s made of marketing what it’s capable of and how it relates to Flash. Will keep you posted on my progress ;-)
Adobe need all the help they can get marketing AIR – they just don’t seem to have a clue.
I’m also pushing my AIR skills so I can keep using AS3 but as a contractor I speak to recruiters every day and they have no idea what AIR let alone the Flash platform.
It is my hope that while “modernizing the Flash runtime’s code base in order to ensure that the Flash runtimes meet the needs of developers over the next five to 10 years” they are simply laying low and hoping the shitstorm they created blows over. Flash Player and AIR will then be set for a fitting resurrection.
Joseph, I’m with you and thank you very much to still support Flash Platform.
Your badge is now on my G+ profile :)
Hey Joseph Labrecque,
looks like your from the design corner. But flash is not just a “interactive” enviroment like JS and HTML. It is a almost fully qualified programming platform. You would NEVER see stuff like minko, Alternativa or Away3d in java script. since FlashPlayer 11.3 it is so powerfull. Hardware acceleration, shaders and many more stuff you might have never used. And a nice framework for complex UIs is already there and well supported by the community. So flash is AWSOME!!!!
Best,
Benny
PS: sorry for bad gramma and stuff. I’m not a native speaker