“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.
Make no mistake, getting rid of flash, desirable as it is, will not get rid of the lazy unimaginative imbeciles who produce the annoying ‘content’. That isn’t even part of the argument. Removing their fingers might work for a few years, until speech recognition gets better.
I was going to write “Long live Click to Flash!”, but I’d much rather it have a short life, due to an even shorter life for Flash itself!
“Thee Flash Thee!”
somewhat amusing to call jpeg an open and free standard. I remember all kinds of legal battles over the licensing and ownership of the format.
Oh good grief.
Dell is the enemy, Micros**t is the enemy, Real is the enemy, Amazon is the enemy, Palm is the enemy, Nokia is the enemy, Google is the enemy, Nintendo is the enemy, Sony is the enemy, Dvorak is the enemy.
Now Adobe is the enemy.
For the next two years it’ll be Flash Flash Flash.
Adobe!!! Please!!! 10.1! Now!
It’s not paranoia. They really are out to get us.
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Ok, how are we to do really good vector animation without Flash? I’d personally love to see Quartz Composer handle that or animated SVG, but with SVG you have M$ blocking us there with no support in IE8. Bastards…
Me don’t like Adobe.
Boo. Hiss. Quack.
Lack of Flash is the biggest drawback for me about the iPad. Steve Jobs, ‘the best web experience’ or whatever his words actually were. LOL. Not for me when it won’t let me use a lot of content of my favourite websites. (News, sports, music).
If it’s changed in 2 years, and Flash is thankfully dead, HTML5 rules, then we can all cheer. I’ll remove click to flash from my mac and maybe think about an iPad.
For some of us, Apple is not Flash’s death knell, but the reason the iPad looks still-born.
Boohoo, can’t see Flash Crap on your iPad?
Then write the site’s Web Master and tell the site to GET OFF THE FLASH CRAP!
There are plenty of equal or better alternatives to Flash. The more people COMPLAIN about Flash Crap, the sooner it will die.
. . . super cookies? It’s hard to believe that advertisers, China and the Illuminati would allow the disappearance of Flash super cookies.
There must be something to replace them — something we’re not being told about.
Magic Word: military. Coincidence? I think not!
Flash for Mac is ported code from the Windows version. That’s why it’s slow and crash prone. I hate Flash because it really bogs down older computers and its usually used for obnoxious ads anyway. The sooner it dies the better, IMHO.