Is Flash technology a relic? Apple's Steve Jobs thinks -- and says -- so
All of those magazine publishers, web editors and editors generally who have been wondering about Adobe Flash (to Flash or not when it comes to video and web development), will want to carefully parse the just-released, blunt dismissal of the technology by Steve Jobs, the boss of Apple. Essentially, he declares it an unnecessary relic.
Labels: web and print
posted by D. B. Scott at
12:35 pm
4 Comments:
Well, no one should ever have used it for basic web design—it's useless to search engines or, say, people who are visually impaired.
For videos and interactive maps etc it makes a little more sense, but it's so very processor intensive considering the relatively simple things it does.
HTML5 still needs wider browser support, but it's better on pretty much every front.
I hope Jobs is right. And to hell with lazy web designers.
I have always disliked flash for digital magazines, the download speeds are slow, the files are not searchable by Google and clumsy navigation. This is a recipe to irritate and repel readers.
In the early days advertisers provided flash based banner ads and readers did not like them as they slow down the website and the animation was annoying to the eye. As a publisher we could not track the clickthrough rates.
Ever visited a Flash-intensive website? There's a reason people call it flashturbation. And there is a thriving market in Flash blockers for browsers.
If you don't block Flash, you can watch your machine slow to a crawl while the coding sucks in your processor bandwidth. Plus it needs a mouse to make its rollovers work, and the world will be moving to iPad and smartphone interfaces, soooooo, buh-bye.
Agree with all the above. Bag o' hurt.
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