Flash will play on osx just fine. The problem isn't with flash, it's
with vo seeing the flash controls. There's really no reason for this
other than adobe blaming apple, and apple blaming adobe. It's a
vicious circle, and no doubt both are partly to blame, but neither
wants to accept the blame, because it would mean extra work to fix it.
Now, with that said, to be blunt, flash bites. It's a cpu hog, it
eats memory, and it's slow, because of the layers of interpretation
that must take place before the final product can be put onscreen.
It's simply not written well, it's been proven to be buggy in the
past, and I expect it will continue to be exploited in future. This
is all Adobe's fault. A decent assembly programmer (or one that is
really good at optimization) could likely fix the memory and cpu
issues, but adobe has done nothing about these for many many years,
and I doubt they'll start now. In short, adobe is junk, and the
sooner folks realize that, the sooner we can move on to something else
that does the job faster, with less resource utilization, and with
more streamlined processes. Whether that something will be html5 or
something else is unknown at this point, but in a side-by-side
comparison for cpu usage, memory usage, ease of use, and
accessibility, html5 wins hands down on every count when compared to
flash, and that is not an opinion, it's an easily demonstratable
fact. Even the players used for flash vs. html5 are smaller. I
recently converted 73 videos from flash to html5, and not only did
those videos become more accessible, but it also saved me a few
megabytes of disk space in the process. Admittedly, these dys, only
older folks like me seem to care about that sort of thing, but if
you've got hundreds or thousands of videos, those savings add up to
considerable space savings. Anyway, I've been considering writing up
a short article explaining the process of converting from flash to
html5, to take the mystery out of it. My guess is that a lot of folks
still use flash, because they don't know how easy it is to implement
the same process in html5, and in some cases, they probably don't even
know html5 exists, so it's a matter of education more than anything
else.
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