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HTML5 vs. Flash — the Case For Flash
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Peter Wayner offers seven reasons why web designers will remain loyal to Flash for rich web content, despite 'seductive' new capabilities offered by HTML5. Sure, HTML5 aims to duplicate many of the features that were once the sole province of plugins (local disk storage, video display, better rendering, algorithmic drawing, and more) and has high-profile backers in Google and Apple, but as Wayner sees it, this fight is more about designers than it is about technocrats and programmers. And from its sub-pixel resolution, to its developer tools, to its 'write once, play everywhere' functionality, Flash has too much going for it to fall by the wayside. 'The designers will make the final determination. As long as Flash and its cousins Flex and Shockwave remain the simplest tools for producing drop-dead gorgeous websites, they'll keep their place on the Internet.'"
1. Get a faster Internet Connection... I haven't had problems with long loading Flash Screens for YEARS.
2. Restaurants often don't have a team of Web Developers they tell a web developer what they want and they build it. Often their specs have the need for flash.
3. A lot of the sites are rather old and haven't been designed for Phones yet... As it is a new application to view their site they haven't capitalized on yet.
4. If you make your choices based on Flash on their site you must have a miserable life.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
really? How about Visual studio? How about any tools that can use the can`vas tag?
There are many tools, and I suspect there will be even more. If Adobe has the shit together, they would create kick ass tools for html 5. So if it does hurt flash that can leverage all the current developers to continue to buy the product they are used to.
frankly, I would be surprised if you can't already do that in their product.
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The Web is becoming increasingly unusable to the visually impaired as a result of the adoption of Flash. That's a reality that deserves special attention.
I see no reason to support technologies that make web-pages non-declarative and difficult to use. The Imperative web is dangerous, and provides us with constant security threats, slow and crashing browsers, Rickroll bombs, and vendor tie-ins that are difficult to escape. The vanilla web may lack in some features, but really - do we WANT the web to be a big scary application?
You're right that they don't hate Flash per se.
They hate anything that has the slightest potential to threaten their vice like control over their platform or their position as a toll gate on any content that gets on the device.