Comments on: Flash 2005 http://shawn.medero.net/2009/08/23/flash-2005/ An Online Notebook Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:24:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Shawn Medero http://shawn.medero.net/2009/08/23/flash-2005/#comment-3 Shawn Medero Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:24:56 +0000 http://shawn.medero.net/?p=58#comment-3 <p>Currently Flash faces an uphill battle in HTML user-agents because prominent browser makers don't feel comfortable giving 3rd party binaries anymore rope with which to hang themselves than necessary. If you look at what browsers are doing in the <code><object></code> and <code><embed></code> area it is all about sandboxing them. Because of the performance and security issues I wonder if there really is room for Flash to any grow further.</p> <p>Note that I said "currently" and "prominent" with respect to browser makers. Adobe has tried to move the state-of-art forward with Air but I don't think the product is compelling enough for consumers to move to it en masse. Air also fails to address the existing deployment problems Flash has on mobile devices.</p> Currently Flash faces an uphill battle in HTML user-agents because prominent browser makers don’t feel comfortable giving 3rd party binaries anymore rope with which to hang themselves than necessary. If you look at what browsers are doing in the <object> and <embed> area it is all about sandboxing them. Because of the performance and security issues I wonder if there really is room for Flash to any grow further.

Note that I said “currently” and “prominent” with respect to browser makers. Adobe has tried to move the state-of-art forward with Air but I don’t think the product is compelling enough for consumers to move to it en masse. Air also fails to address the existing deployment problems Flash has on mobile devices.

]]> By: Tinus http://shawn.medero.net/2009/08/23/flash-2005/#comment-2 Tinus Sun, 23 Aug 2009 09:55:44 +0000 http://shawn.medero.net/?p=58#comment-2 <p>I think flash is going the way of the dodo and that's a good thing. It might be around for 5 more years, maybe even 10, but eventually there won't be any reason left to choose flash if all functionality is available natively in the browser.</p> I think flash is going the way of the dodo and that’s a good thing. It might be around for 5 more years, maybe even 10, but eventually there won’t be any reason left to choose flash if all functionality is available natively in the browser.

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