Thoughts on Flash

They aren't comparing HTML5 to Native Apps, they're comparing HTML5 to Flash.

Anyone can supply him M&M's as long as they are in predefined colors and size, he refuses some of them by their taste. He is selling all the rest without any concern over the quality of M&M's. He was an ignorant middle-man for all other facts except taste.

Now, he starts banning some specific M&M's based on the production methods of them. No M&M consumer can tell the difference, all taste more or less the same way. Production does neither determine quality nor nutrition facts of M&M's.

I have trouble swallowing some of this. A few of these theories have been debunked successfully.

I have a small problem with this "don't look at the man behind the curtain" routine. Proprietary is proprietary. Don't try and swing it.

Battery Life: http://vimeo.com/9705969, http://vimeo.com/9724682

Delays: http://www.neowin.net/news/adobe-quotapple-hurts-customers-f...

Touch/Scroll: http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2010/02/22/flash-player-con..., http://www.mikechambers.com/blog/2010/02/23/scrolling-html-w...

Speed: http://jobemakar.blogspot.com/2010/04/flash-is-speedy-on-and...

I expect to have Flash available for my for droid soon, and for many of the reasons presented in this well articulated press release, i will not install it.

The thought of having to wait till a useless flash Ad render on my mobile browser, without any ability to block them is reason enough not to have it on my phone.

Unless Flash framework is completely revamped it will vanish to a place of old proprietary technologies, I am saddened by this, because flash offered a venue for application development to many creative people who are not programmers, and they made amazing stuff, but standards are important, and i suppose authoring tools for HTML5 will mature enough for non programmers in due time.

With all that said, The lock on the stream of revenue solely through the app store is to me, very hard to accept, developers should pressure apple to allow other venues, in the long run a single store is just not conducive to anything "open"

Clearly, none of you people commenting here are considering the flash gaming market. Yes, I can see how most video sites can ditch their Flash players once almost everyone has html5-capable browsers, and yes videos is the largest use-case for Flash right now, but games is the second largest, involves a lot more money, and cannot be easily replicated without Flash.

Also, the people making games in Flash are usually graphics designers, not programmers, and they will have a harder time jumping to new technologies, even if they reach parity. You would have to have an environment that is as rich as Adobe CS and as capable when it comes to graphic and animation design, but for html5/javascript, before you will see a significant shift there.

Flash is much more entrenched than you think, and no matter how much Apple or Google wishes Flash didn't exist, they won't be able to dislodge it until there are good alternatives for all the major use-cases for Flash, not just video or animated websites.