Flash is the most complete animation tool-thing out there for the the serious web developer - today; tomorrow it will be there as well, maybe it will not need to do all it has to do today because there will be other tools available to complement what the web can be. Today flash is widely used to stream video because its the fastest at it.
Maybe what you are complaining about is that you do not have the patience to learn how to use flash.
Sure is proprietary, and fer-sure, the learning curve in flash is steep; its not for the faint of heart.
The plugin is free to download any-day.
If you work with flash selling one or two jobs pays for the program, and I mean one or two banner adds,after that its profit.
So why all this wining?
Even better then Flash was Director, but too heavy it was (for the dial-up web of 15 years ago); it never took off.
Flash has security holes, sure it does, HTML5 has security craters.
HTML5 to become a standard; till they can patch the craters (which is mostly agreeing with each other); start looking at 2025 and beyond...
whatever..
I dont know why people are always saying flash is dead, every year its the same thing.
please, take a look at flash 11 and check its pulse before making statements like that.
pulse:
Flash 11;
64 bit native;
super fast HD video;
delivers 66-80+ million polygons per second on the fly, rendered on-the-fly by the GPU, most smartphone nowadays come with a GPU;
the CPU is left free to do other things such as running the OS, your email client, etc;
chrome supports it;
firefox supports it;... and when kids play with 80+ million color polygons dancing in front of their eyes, kids like it and kids come back for more;
IE? Is it still around?
last time I used IE was IE 4.0 that came with Win 98 so I could go online for one single time; and do one single action with IE; which was to download Netscape and start using it.
IE does not need to have plug in support; what-so-ever. Its like the spare tire that comes with your car that came with no wheels, use it once to download a browser and you never have to touch it again.
sorry man, flash is kicking and screening, and going though another cycle. This next cycle in Flashs life is a leap, not just a jump forward.
whats dead are linear 2d web sites, thats dead.
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Flash is the most complete animation tool-thing out there for the the serious web developer - today; tomorrow it will be there as well, maybe it will not need to do all it has to do today because there will be other tools available to complement what the web can be. Today flash is widely used to stream video because its the fastest at it. Maybe what you are complaining about is that you do not have the patience to learn how to use flash. Sure is proprietary, and fer-sure, the learning curve in flash is steep; its not for the faint of heart. The plugin is free to download any-day. If you work with flash selling one or two jobs pays for the program, and I mean one or two banner adds ,after that its profit.
So why all this wining?
Even better then Flash was Director, but too heavy it was (for the dial-up web of 15 years ago); it never took off.
Flash has security holes, sure it does, HTML5 has security craters.
HTML5 to become a standard; till they can patch the craters (which is mostly agreeing with each other); start looking at 2025 and beyond. ..
whatever..
I dont know why people are always saying flash is dead, every year its the same thing.
please, take a look at flash 11 and check its pulse before making statements like that.
pulse:
Flash 11;
64 bit native;
super fast HD video;
delivers 66-80+ million polygons per second on the fly, rendered on-the-fly by the GPU, most smartphone nowadays come with a GPU;
the CPU is left free to do other things such as running the OS, your email client, etc;
chrome supports it;
firefox supports it; ... and when kids play with 80+ million color polygons dancing in front of their eyes, kids like it and kids come back for more;
IE? Is it still around?
last time I used IE was IE 4.0 that came with Win 98 so I could go online for one single time; and do one single action with IE; which was to download Netscape and start using it.
IE does not need to have plug in support; what-so-ever. Its like the spare tire that comes with your car that came with no wheels, use it once to download a browser and you never have to touch it again.
sorry man, flash is kicking and screening, and going though another cycle. This next cycle in Flashs life is a leap, not just a jump forward.
whats dead are linear 2d web sites, thats dead.