Flash is dying a death by 1,000 cuts, and that's a good thing • Hacker News Board

Re: Flash is dying a death by 1,000 cuts, and that's a good thing

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Post by gonchar » Wed, Aug 26, 2015, 6:41 AM UTC

Ok, kill Flash. Then you will get HTML5 banners :) without simplest redraw region optimization inside, so you will get much more hot from your computer.

it's funny but Flash IDE is the best tool nowadays to create HTML5 animations.

Also Flash is used for crossplatform apps and game development for social networks, mobile and desktop platforms. I really doubt that million players of Candy Crush will remove Flash Player :) Top 25 Facebook games are made with Flash :) Market is still huge. There are no any alternative to Flash nowadays, Unity3D doesn't work in Chrome, WebGL export is a shit(we are all waiting for a new standard), HTML5 game development is really expensive and sometimes impossible.

Time will show.

Re: Flash is dying a death by 1,000 cuts, and that's a good thing

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 26, 2015, 6:44 AM UTC

fenomas wrote: post #58

k__ wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Flash and Internet Explorer stole us probably 10 years of technological advancement. The state of the open web slowed down because of them. And I see this happening again with native mobile apps.

This is insanely far off base. When Flash was ascendant there was no open web, not on the horizon, not even as a glimmer in the milkman's eye. HTML/web development was a nasty brutish mess with each browser extending each "standard" however they wanted, while the w3c specified stuff none of the vendors were even considering implementing. Then Flash came along with a single API, a single consistent model for interacti…

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Re: Flash is dying a death by 1,000 cuts, and that's a good thing

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Post by BatFastard » Mon, Aug 31, 2015, 1:28 PM UTC

synja wrote: post #59

It's a shame that most of the people espousing Javascript were watching Power Rangers when Flash's real contribution to the web was being recognized. There are a few archetypes of flash haters and they almost all fall into one of these categories: * Tech Bloggers looking for a salacious story, considering Flash is Dead articles always get a lot of debate (and clicks) * Young kids who lack the historical perspective t…

Well said snja! Much as I dislike the loss of control from using propietary software, I do agree that Flash is greatly superior to HTML5 and javascript with one major exception. Lack of interest from the community at large. Adobe needs to present a 5 year plan, so that developers can know that Flash wont be going away anytime soon.