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Why Flash Is Fundamentally Flawed On Touchscreen Devices

Posted by Soulskill on from the 'cause-it's-flash dept.

An anonymous reader passes along this excerpt from Roughly Drafted: "I'm a full-time Flash developer and I'd love to get paid to make Flash sites for the iPad. I want that to make sense — but it doesn't. Flash on the iPad will not (and should not) happen — and the main reason, as I see it, is one that never gets talked about: current Flash sites could never be made to work well on any touchscreen device, and this cannot be solved by Apple, Adobe, or magical new hardware. That's not because of slow mobile performance, battery drain or crashes. It's because of the hover or mouseover problem. ... All that Apple and Adobe could ever do is make current Flash content visible. It would be seen, but very often would not work."

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  1. Eat my balls! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Flash is the future of the internet. Get with it, you limp-wristed cock-chugging mac faggots!

    1. Re:Eat my balls! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      No way, dickhead. Silverlight is the future.

      Get the facts, people.

  2. WTF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why is it that all of you faggots usually whine about Flash (IT ISN'T SUPPORTED WELL ON LINUX LOL WE SHOULD GET RID OF IT) until Steve Jobs says no Flash on iPad - now, all of a sudden you're the biggest defenders of it? It's fine to be a contrarian but... seriously... would it be that difficult to be consistent?

  3. Re:Flawed Logic in OP by rinoid · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm pretty sure I see why you aren't a product manager at a multi billion dollar company.
     
    Nice job of complicating an easy UI.