I personally think that if Flash wants to compete with the likes of
HTML 5 and jQuery, it needs to step out of the plugin area.
Make it an EMCA viable script language. Like Actionscript becoming
Javascripts competitor. Make it so Actionscript can control and
manipulate DOM.
Just sayin..
Karl
PS: I don't think the original topic was vectors anyway, so your
good. :)
On Sep 18, 2012, at 5:26 AM, Cédric Muller wrote:
Karl DeSaulniers wrote :
Flash is not dead. It's hibernating.
..... With SOME of the fault in the way flash handles things.
Adobe was a little confusing on that one. It somehow proved it
lacked of vision, and failed to capitalize the 'money grabbing'
process that was needed for Mankind (sarcasm). And since then, it
looks like Flash is living the Director's fate (and maybe the
Director's Cut too ...). Flash is still very good, as a runtime. As
are a lot of runtimes. What we observe is that browsers are
runtimes, and that we can do many things with them that don't
justify Flash use anymore (as it was always the case, take the
usability gurus .. err darketers ). So all in all, Flash Player is
still a strong runtime that lets developpers leverage some amazing
things with it. Moreover, this AppStore storm got rid of a lot of
bad Flash use (indirectly, a lot of bad applications with bad
usability principles can be found on the iOS ecosystem from now on).
Flash is now considered as a technology, and no more as a new
paradigm (which is what the iOS AppStore is currently going
through). 15 minutes of fame.
Cedric.
Sorry for the OT, as I don't really anything to add regarding
vectors vs bitmaps ... though I 'plus' the view that it truly
depends on the utilization: sometimes bitmaps are better, sometimes
vectors are better: know your tech and make experiments in order to
test in real situations. (Though I was amazingly amazed by the way
Flash Player simply merges with Retina displays, for example.
Vectors power!)
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