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"Great Web Site, Pixar" -- Seriously?

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Re: "Great Web Site, Pixar" -- Seriously?

#11

Goes to show that the Internet is still not ready to completely leave flash. All the more reason why Apple needs to get over themselves and support flash. Push HTML5 because yes it is better but support flash until it is no longer used.

The problem is that even if Apple supported Flash, it wouldn't probably work anyway...

http://jeffcroft.com/blog/2010/may/08/android-flash-demo-fla...

Re: "Great Web Site, Pixar" -- Seriously?

#13
I agree that they should also include content for non-flash browsers (in addition to iPads, it's a heckuva lot friendlier to screen readers for the blind).

But at some point it is fair to draw a line. A very small percentage of my visitors are using IE5. My sites don't work at all in IE5. I don't intend to address this problem.

Re: "Great Web Site, Pixar" -- Seriously?

#16
post #7

I don't even really know where to start with the lazy stupidity of the linked through posts. Yes, your 0.002% market penetration new toy doesn't support Flash, and yes you trawled the net for a site that had no alt content for it's Flash content aimed at a demographic that will be 99% Flash enabled. Marketing is not a business that deals in 100%s, neither is web development. If you chose specifically to be in the 1%…

I think the point is that Pixar is owned and manged by Jobs. It's a little like finding that MS-Bing doesn't work with IE8

Re: "Great Web Site, Pixar" -- Seriously?

#18
There are logical times to roast people for using flash over html5, this is not one of them. For really advanced animation like movie sites, Flash is sadly still king. HTML5 can get there.

I also don't know how involved steve jobs is on a day to day basis at pixar anymore. I'm pretty sure he isn't reviewing the website though.

Re: "Great Web Site, Pixar" -- Seriously?

#19
post #7

I don't even really know where to start with the lazy stupidity of the linked through posts. Yes, your 0.002% market penetration new toy doesn't support Flash, and yes you trawled the net for a site that had no alt content for it's Flash content aimed at a demographic that will be 99% Flash enabled. Marketing is not a business that deals in 100%s, neither is web development. If you chose specifically to be in the 1%…

I think the point is that Pixar is owned and manged by Jobs. It's a little like finding that MS-Bing doesn't work with IE8

*owned by Disney and managed by Jim Morris (he produced WALL-E)

Although, you could argue that Catmull and Lasseter are more responsible for this than Jobs is...

Re: "Great Web Site, Pixar" -- Seriously?

#20

Goes to show that the Internet is still not ready to completely leave flash. All the more reason why Apple needs to get over themselves and support flash. Push HTML5 because yes it is better but support flash until it is no longer used.

Regardless of the whole Apple/Flash issue:

Refusing to support older technologies helps encourage people to start using the newer technologies. If everyone dropped support for flash (obviously this wouldn't actually happen) then developers would be forced to use alternatives. If flash continues to be supported then developers have less of an incentive to replace their current solutions.

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