“Apple’s shutting Flash out of the iPad seems to have given a lot of disgruntled Flash users permission to dream about [a Web without Flash],” Rob Pegoraro reports for The Washington Post.
“Adobe’s technology has been abused to create such aesthetic offenses as pointless site-intro videos, gaudy interactive interfaces and pushy animated ads,” Pegoraro reports. “Relying on one company’s product seems odd when such Web ingredients as HTML coding and JPEG images are open, free standards. And the Flash Player itself can be a memory and processor hog and requires frequent security fixes to boot.”
“Those last traits led Apple to leave Flash out of the iPhone and iPod Touch… They also explain Flash’s absence from many other smartphones,” Pegoraro reports. “Apple’s upcoming iPad, however, looks much more like a ‘real’ computer than a smartphone. And if it sells as well as initial forecasts project — adding to the 75 million people who, Jobs said, have bought an iPhone or an iPod Touch — a nontrivial chunk of the Web audience would be leading a Flash-free existence.”
Pegoraro reports, “Web developers could keep creating sites that don’t work for those people, or they could upgrade to a new, more capable version of the Web’s basic language called HTML5. The hope among Flash foes is that they’ll go with Plan B. I wouldn’t mind seeing that happen myself.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Use your head, don’t use Flash.
How cool would that be!
The sooner FLASH goes away the better for everyone. I’m not falling for that “almost as good as Windows version” BS from Adobe. ClicktoFlash is here to stay. Browsing is so much faster and safer with CTF. Everyone should use this.
My web browsing experience improved markedly after I installed ClickToFlash. The death of Flash can’t come soon enough for me.
@ Jubei
Agree! My browser is much faster with CTF. Whoever came up with that idea – Thank You!
In the greater history of the internet, it is my sincere hope that this “Future Splash Animator” thingy will eventually be looked back upon as little more than a… Flash in the pan.
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The best radon for Flash to die can be found at http://www.allworldsresorts.com
CAUTION: content may not be suitable for all audiences. Don’t bother trying it from your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad (that’s for you, Pee Wee and Stephen Colbert).
Flash should only be used for game development. Not for site design or banner ads.
There are alternatives already to Flash development: JQuery, CSS, AJAX, and HTML5.
http://webdesignledger.com/tutorials/13-excellent-jquery-animation-techniques
HTML5 Video Player:
http://jilion.com/sublime/video
Development platform:
http://www.aptana.org
Death to Flash!!!
Flash smells like a crash waiting to happen!
@gRen
“Flash should only be used for game development.”
How about a big fat NO!
The games available for the iPhone/Touch are already awesome. Retooling it for the iPad, with Minority Report moveable controllers is going to rock. The hell with FLASH games, don’t even bother with that.
Please stand up all the web designers who have burdened us with tacky-overkill Flash sites…
OK – let fly the eggs….
One thing everybody seems to be forgetting is that NONE of the Flash interactive content [ie, all the games and videos that people want to watch] need to be updated to work properly with any Flash that Adobe would ship for the iPhone. All the controls need to be redone for touch instead of mouse, content resized and performance checked that it works right on mobile devices. And after all this extra work, you still have a second-class UI running in a crash-prone plugin.
I like our strategy … I like it a lot.
Flash had a use 5 or so years ago when we had no ajax and now we can do all those animations that just work without plugins, there just doesn’t seem to be a need. I can only hope that users and developers alike can prevent silverlight from becoming main stream. I can deal with Adobe but when it comes to MicroSoft double standards in their different version of the same software.. Please help us!
@ScubaBoy…
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OMFG that site is totally gay… in every way!
What’s propping up Flash (aside from YouTube) is porn, but nearly every porn site these days has an iPhone option for h.264 videos without Flash.
There was a blog post where an Adobe employee created a collage of sites running on iPads. It was meant to demonstrate the strength of Flash and how you’d encounter so many of the annoying blue legos on your journey through the web. One of the sites they used, believe it or not, was the Bang Brothers porn site. But Bang Brothers has an iPhone version of the site without Flash so maybe we’d be able to access that on the iPad too.
I’m not a big porn freak or anything. My point is how much of the internet seems to be getting by without Flash already. So maybe that HTML5 version of the web without Flash is being built right now, under the radar, thanks to Apple. Nobody else could get these companies to create alternate Flash-less sites.
Flash ain’t going ANYWHERE until the porn industry takes it’s “head” out of it’s arse! I say, “Boycott porn on the web”!
Who’s with me? Hello?
*chirp chirp*
“I’m not a big porn freak or anything.”
Actually I am a big porn freak. That was a rare moment of lying from R2 in order to justify myself in the eyes of MDN readers. I’ll try not to make that mistake again.
“MacDailyNews Take: Use your head, don’t use Flash.”
White man speak with forked tongue.
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I hope everyone is trying the YouTube HTML5 beta. It makes a pleasant difference for me.
http://www.youtube.com/html5
I like flash…..
It’s made one hell of a lot of money over the years…!!
I don’t care how it runs or if people like it or not, I just like making money, excellent news now though as my clients will come back to me for me to re-do all the work in html now
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magic word “door” as in as one closes another one opens!
We need a standard that is well supported for vector animation. Flash used to be great for this. Now it has to much overhead.
Imagine there’s no Flash,
It isn’t hard to do,
No annoying banners,
No too-hot CPU,
Imagine all the browsers, downloading in peace!
You may say I’m a dreamer,
But I’m not the only one,
One day Flash will be gone,
And the Web can live as one!
——RM
Good riddance, Flash!
Unfortunately for Adobe, like it or not, when Jobs points to a technology as either the future or the past, he’s got a pretty good track record – floppy-less iMac, track pad, USB/Firewire, Unix, iTunes, WebKit, multi-touch smartphones. No wonder people are waiting for him to give the blessing to Blue-Ray, though it may never come.