On Friday 24 Feb 2012 14:13:29 james wrote: > Mick <michaelkintzios <at> gmail.com> writes: > > The thing is that apple smartphones and tablets do not offer flash. > > Desktop volumes are in decline, while smartphones and tablets sales are > > increasing. This could be seasonal of course, but if the future moves > > away from the flash capable desktop, then flash will become increasingly > > obsolete. > > I sympathize with where you are headed. But reality is FLASH is very > entrenched. Numerous sites, that I have no choice but to use, use > FLASH in a centric role. This is going to force folks to have a > doz system for reliable access. Hopefully by then Windos.x will be > easily setup in a VM on Linux, so the requisite browser can be > launched therein..... or some solution. > > For example, much of the State of Florida's online education > offered requires FLASH. No amount of complaints will > change that. No other alternatives. You cannot just 'will' > away Flash, imho. > > Thanks to all for the input, as I shall just 'wait and see'...
If you go back a few years there was no flash. Then flash arrived and some web designers went mad at creating flash-only websites. Very very poor google rankings was not a problem for them, as long as the site looked errrm ... flash? Ha, ha! Then common sense followed where by flash elements were added, but websites retained (X)HTML, CSS and javascript. In the future it is likely that HTML5, continuously improving javascript functionality and perhaps some new technology will render flash redundant; but I agree with you that this won't likely happen overnight. -- Regards, Mick
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