I was wrong
by paul on April 17, 2011
For a while there in 2010 I was red hot on the “Flash is awesome for everything” side of the debate started by Steve Jobs infamous “Thoughts on Flash” memo. Frankly, I must have written a dozen red hot posts blasting Apple about their reasons and decisions to not run Flash on their mobile devices. It’s reviews like this though that make me think I was dead wrong:
“For the PlayBook, that edge is support for Adobe Flash, a feature that the iPad is famously lacking. RIM says it took over two years of working with Adobe to bring Flash to its tablet.
Two years may not have been enough. During a round of Plants vs. Zombies, gameplay bogged down whenever the animation got intense. Every time I tried to access a Flash game on Facebook, the browser crashed. Yes, every single time.“
If you want animation on your pages to run on mobile devices you really should learn some HTML5. If you want to play a game, write some thing in the native language (or use a really good framework like Corona.)
Sorry Flash, can we still be friends?
2 comments
HTML5 says, “Come to the Dark Side. We have cookies.”
by .tif on June 22, 2011 at 12:59 pm. #
The critics still love to hammer Apple over the infamous Flash decision, despite the web evolving quite nicely around it, not to mention Apple’s latest sales numbers (people don’t care anymore).
Flash on our lab’s playbook ain’t great. Heck, plain-ol’ web-browsing on the playbook isn’t stellar either.
HTML5 is the way. Silverlight needs to start rethinking its strategy…
by kanuck on July 25, 2011 at 10:40 am. #