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Sunday, May 02, 2010

IS THE DEATH OF FLASH...PREMATURE?

BECAUSE OF HIS CULT LIKE STATUS WITH REGARD TO ALL THINGS APPLE, STEVE JOBS
COULD PULL OUT AN IPAD AND SPIT ON IT IN PUBLIC, AND CAUSE FOLKS TO JABBER ABOUT
THE DEATH OF THE JUST RELEASED IPAD. THE PROBLEM IS, JOBS, AND OTHERS, TAKE HIM
AND HIS INTELLECT, FAR TOO SERIOUSLY. After all, did he mouse come from Jobs,
or Jobs come from the mouse?

The death of Flash is one of the most retarded things I've heard in a while.
Now, these "Flash is dead" minions, are mainly talking about Flash as a video
format (e.g. FLV), and folks are yammering on about how the H.264 format is
"da bomb" and has gone from a marginal market to the majority of videos in that
format.

But, when you say, FLASH is dead, you MUST look at the real world,and realize
that in the real world, on the web, this zombie has the rosiest cheeks this
CodeMeister has seen. Some folks wanted to say Flash was a goner when the
beta program at YouTube came out, but I have watched high def vids on YouTube
in HTML5 and in Flash, and a curious thing happens. Flash is consistent, and
gives a pretty good video experience. HTML5 can, occasionally LOOK sharper,
but I also get the herky jerky artifacts in some vids that is horrible, something
Flash never gets. But, the problem here is that Flash is NOT just a video format...
but, a developer platform that, as we speak, probably is used more than anything
else on cutting edge websites, and that fact cannot be ignored. Go to any major
movie's website, what do you see? Yeah, flash. Go to various artists and special
effects house websites, what do you see, yeah, Flash!

The fact that a LOT of website designers and developers have spent a lot of money,
and invested a lot of time, in mastering the use of Flash as a design tool, and the fact that it is so integrally embedded in high dollar websites, cannot be dismissed or ignored.

The H.264 standard/format, may be a good video encoder, but can you use it to design controls on a website or any of the other utilitarian things that Flash is empowered to do? I think not. Look, I am not an apologist for Adobe, since lots of folks seem to have a problem with them, BUT, you cannot ignore their track record for developing applications that can take on all comers and come out on top.

Wane examples? Let's take the fact that one of their products has entered into the language as a verb..."He photoshopped that picture". Without a doubt, image manipulation and creation is ruled by Photoshop and other Adobe products.

InDesign kicked Quark's ass when Quark was the reigning program for publishers.
Quark had to implement changes in their prog just to keep up with InDesign.

Anyone who knows much about image production, desktop publishing (or major publishing), can quickly realize that Adobe, good, bad, or ugly, has taken a position of market dominance in just about everything they get involved in.

So, methinks this talk about the Death of Flash, probably, is just a "flash in the pain".

"So it goes."- Kurt Vonnegut, RIP
~CoDe

Labels: flash, H.264, HTML5, MPEG2, MPEG4, video encoding, youtube

posted by CodeWarrior # Sunday, May 02, 2010

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