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Flash (I hate it)

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coolVariable

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PA: I HATE Flash. I hope it dies and goes away. The internet was soooo much nicer and better before flash.
It is ridiculous how people use flash for everything nowadays. You go to a simple restaurant website (menu, location, photos, contact) and the whole stupid page is made with flash. Arrrgggggh!

As much as I dislike Apple, I totally side with Steve Jobs when it comes to his hate for Flash.

At least Chrome offers a plug-in to disable flash (which works better than the horrible ad-blocker plug-in for Chrome which makes the browser totally unstable and a resource hog).
 
coolVariable said:
PA: I HATE Flash. I hope it dies and goes away. The internet was soooo much nicer and better before flash.
It is ridiculous how people use flash for everything nowadays. You go to a simple restaurant website (menu, location, photos, contact) and the whole stupid page is made with flash. Arrrgggggh!

As much as I dislike Apple, I totally side with Steve Jobs when it comes to his hate for Flash.

At least Chrome offers a plug-in to disable flash (which works better than the horrible ad-blocker plug-in for Chrome which makes the browser totally unstable and a resource hog).
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Steve Jobs hates Flash because it's an Adobe product and Apple's presumably got a competing product coming.

Don't hate Flash - hate the people who ask for it and their designers who don't keep them in check, and flash devs who don't give a damn about doing anything RIGHT, just getting the job done. Well-coded, well-designed flash is neither obnoxious nor a resource hog.
 
I don't think there's a competing product from Apple. Flash is bad because it lets developers be lazy. I still don't understand why it bring my fans to 100% just to run a little game.
 
I think flash itself is good, but most website implementations of it are poor. Websites that have flash intros, require everything you click on to be done within flash, and have music or sound effects enabled by default are all garbage. Youtube is an example of flash implemented properly into a website.
 
If it did, it would lose all kinds of functionality. HTML 5's video implementation is about as basic as it gets.
 
flash based websites are awful thats for sure.
apple and adobe work together well in photoshop. so whether theres hatred im not so sure.

adobe with bloat poor performance and security flaws is a giant negative for any product to support for any product that requires long battery life though. that apple keeps ignoring flash just shows how truly sh*tty that software is.
 
dguy6789 said:
I think flash itself is good, but most website implementations of it are poor. Websites that have flash intros, require everything you click on to be done within flash and have music or sound effects enabled by default are all garbage.
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Yep. My university website requires IE, flash, ActiveX and java plus a piece of proprietary 'security software' to properly navigate and do things like enter our grades and post syllabi.
 
+1

flash is everywhere and done so unnecessarily. the worst part is that it has such poor performance or rather it's not well optimized ends up consuming a good bulk of CPU cycles. (try flash on an older machine or on OSX...)

why can't something standardized be used like html5?
 
vexingv said:
+1

flash is everywhere and done so unnecessarily. the worst part is that it has such poor performance or rather it's not well optimized ends up consuming a good bulk of CPU cycles. (try flash on an older machine or on OSX...)

why can't something standardized be used like html5?
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Cause html5 isn't really standardized either. At least not in the video department.

The problem with flash is how powerful it really is. So many amateurs are making web pages with flash, and they really have no understanding of the need for optimizing their work, or meeting certain performance requirements.
 
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I remember reading that silverlight was generally superior to flash...but hardly anyone is adopting it since flash is so well entrenched. (and moonlight on Linux is a joke)
 
my favorite thing is when they use FLASH for an advertisement slowing down your PC.... yeah thats a good way to get me to buy your product. SLOW down my pc.

Ever watched the memory usage of chrome or firefox? mine goes over 1gb on linux/windows. Doesnt matter what platform im on
 
Khyron320 said:
my favorite thing is when they use FLASH for an advertisement slowing down your PC.... yeah thats a good way to get me to buy your product. SLOW down my pc.

Ever watched the memory usage of chrome or firefox? mine goes over 1gb on linux/windows. Doesnt matter what platform im on
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Yes I have and I deal with it as best as possible. If I could never use flash I would.
 
You most definitely are not alone. Not only are many Flash-based web sites annoying and poorly-coded, most are unnecessary. They rarely offer anything that could not be done just as well -- or better -- via a simpler and faster HTML-based site.
 
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