errm so.
Flash isn't dead then, despite what the scaremongers here claimed a couple of months back.
Adobe is allowing programmers to use "premium features" in Flash Player 11.2 for free to kickstart take up among games makers. After unleashing the Flash build and AIR 3.2 upon the world, Adobe announced that premium functionality in Player will be available free of charge to content published before 1 August and there will be …
Flash is Dead? Not yet. Hurting, definitely. This issue has little to do with performance or security rather the control of the media market place and vengeance from old wounds. But with Apples market cap at 572 billion vs. Adobe 35, we know who won that media spin battle. However, the war is long. Android is free, it's hard to beat free. GOOG market cap 210 + 35 vs 572, the fight wages on. acs
Let's not start this. I know there is no easier way to start a flame war around here than defending Flash or criticizing Apple, but the Flash discussions tend to fill so quickly with bizarre claims that it really is just annoying. Flash on intel lives, on mobile, not so much. Beyond that, lets just wait and see.
This 'ere Flash is not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This software is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the browser 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-SOFTWARE!
Is it just me, or is it not incredibly bizarre that people are talking about developing enterprise applications and serious games on en extension of what essentially started out as a very simple version of WordStar with links?
I mean, HTML was brilliant, but this seems a bit like starting with a coffee maker and five versions later having a battleship. Is there something I'm missing here? Did they just shoehorn a version of C in there and call it HTML, or are they somehow raping HTML's markup into having flow control, loops, and objects? 'Cos I just can't see any way they could do that in -markup- without inducing seizures...