Comments on: RIP, Flash (and Silverlight too)

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:34:00 +0000

Flash is more than your browser plugin. Ignoramus articles like these would kill Flash, and all its permutation that isnt just a browser plugin. There are enterprise applications and ipad applications running based on flash technology, see the award winning Machinarium game for Ipad.

Blaming the plugin for poor programming by flash developers is laughable – its like blaming the ingredients for how the food taste – as opposed to blaming the cook.

HTML 5 is no where near what flash can do at this point, and all comparison hillariously tries to reproduce what flash does…Look ma! I can almost recreate what flash can do.

Flash, together with air, flex, actionscript and builder, can create programs for all kinds of platforms, including iOS and Android. And all you need is one competent programmer/graphic designer.

Without it, trying to create something for iOS and Android needs 1 programmer for objective C/xCode, and 1 programmer for android. And then you’d need a graphic designer.

Keep feeding the crowd.

By: Hoby Van Hoose

Hoby Van Hoose — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:45:00 +0000

The only two for me are was the site made for the last Olympic Games and the Netflix player.

By: Hoby Van Hoose

Hoby Van Hoose — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:31:00 +0000

Tell that to all the flash game makers and you will not have a happy crowd.

By: R.I.P. Silverlight y Flash « Alejandro Pirola

R.I.P. Silverlight y Flash « Alejandro Pirola — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:19:31 +0000

[...] Para Microsoft es oficial: ”In a post to the Building Windows 8 blog, Internet Explorer development chief Dean Hachamovich made clear the IE 10 browser in Windows 8 will not support plug-ins. That means that neither flash nor Silverlight will run in IE (though other apps, including other browsers, may support the Flash and Silverlight players.) Instead, Microsoft will follow Apple’s lead and rely on native HTML 5 for rich web applications and media play.” Microsoft, Apple, Google, Android y ahora Adobe están en la carrera del por el calis sagrado: un framework HTML5 CSS3 JS multiplataforma. Solo espero que en el medio respeten los standards. Like this:LikeBe the first to like this post. This entry was posted on 6 octubre 2011 at 3:19 am and tagged with CSS3, Flash, HTML5, Javascript, Silverlight and posted in Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. « Appcelerator Titanium Editors [...]

By: Steve Wildstrom

Steve Wildstrom — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:13:13 +0000

Probably the best known use of Silverlight is the Netflix PC client.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:01:00 +0000

What is this Silverlight of which you speak?!?

Seriously, in all the years Silverlight has been out, I’ve never encountered a web site that used it. Not once. (And no, I don’t have it installed without my knowledge. I use an old PPC Mac and iOS devices, which aren’t supported by Silverlight.)

By: Yohannon (Just Yohannon)

Yohannon (Just Yohannon) — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 19:07:00 +0000

Remember the writing on the wall started with the original iPhone over *4 years* ago… one of the many “predictions” of the nascent device’s early demise was that it didn’t support flash. Job’s brilliance was laying the blame for what many people assumed was a universal browser problem at the feet of where it belonged, flash. In a weird way Chrome was the second blow — by separating tab processes people could now narrow down crashes to a misbehaving page, and the frequency of how often that page was running flash was easy to note. Even with that, I *still* get the occasional full browser lockup in Chrome that is fixable by killing the flash plug-in in Apple’s “Activity Monitor” utility.

Were there hard feelings for the way Adobe abandoned Apple in the mid-nineties? Probably. But Flash deserved to die. Just like the floppy, the Apple Desktop Bus, AppleTalk and other aging proprietary technologies that Apple had invested a lot in, Steve was not afraid to scare the heck out of the analysts by cutting losses by walking away.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:20:00 +0000

Flash is dying, dying, dying. Just like the wicked witch in the Wizard of Oz.