Words Of Wisdom on 13 April 2010
| rocketpig said: Yep, JS is putting an end to much of the bad use of Flash as we know it. I still love Flash for certain things but they're becoming rarer and rare because, unlike my best friend, I'm not an AS3 mother-fucking-master. Flash is adapting itself by moving into stand-alone (read "non-web") apps and video. It still has a place in the world but thankfully, Adobe is quickly re-tooling its lineup to make Flash more of an honest language and less of a graphical whore tool. |
Flash provided a means to deliver content in a uniform fashion across all browsers (via plugin) during a time when that was really, really hard. As the browsers have improved, Flash's utility drifted toward animation heavy elements. I see Flash as a crutch for the web and the web slowly realizing that it doesn't need that crutch anymore. I look forward to seeing the niche Adobe creates for it in the future.
