Comments on: The fail of the RIA and Mobile strategy of Flash

By: Denis

Denis — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 14:13:15 +0000

I would like to stress that Flash gives you ability to protect content. This is pretty important for multimedia portals.

We develop multimedia portals as outsourcers – we see a lot of discussions about content protection and DRM technologies. Rightholders (especially majors) wont allow to distribute content in open (source) way :-)

This will protect flash on different screen as multimedia portals want to have secure (approved) delivery to many devices.

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Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:14:36 +0000

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By: Matthew Fabb

Matthew Fabb — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:57:41 +0000

Adobe is behind the times in mobile devices, but they currently have deals to reach every major smartphone out there, with the exception of the iPhone (where they have a solution to create a native applications from Flash files).With the high turn over of mobile devices, once mobile Flash it out, give it another 2 years for Flash to be on the majority of mobile devices.

HTML/JavaScript is on all devices, but renders content incredibly different depending on the devices browser. Unlike the desktop where there’s a few dominating browsers, on devices there’s huge fragmentation, so that websites don’t look or work properly across devices. Take a look at this comparison of 19 different WebKit mobile browsers to find huge differences with not one of them rendering content the same: http://bit.ly/1n1K1x

It’s one of the reasons that the big push right now on mobile devices is for native applications over web applications. This could change if Flash web applications can work across multiple devices flawlessly.

Also the “complete OS coming based on JavaScript” I assume you mean ChromeOS, which is set to ship with Flash. In demoing ChromeOS, the Chess game example that Google showed is actually a Flash example. Google tends not to do whole applications in Flash, but a number of their web applications are very dependent on Flash such as StreetView in GoogleMaps, or Google Finance which uses Flex charts.

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Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:35:23 +0000

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By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:54:13 +0000

Well, at first I thought, this could be an interesting article. But after a few lines I realized that its yet another Flash bashing article without deeper knowledge about the trends and strategies of big players. I myself develop for “big players” (Flash,Flex) and there’s a huge potential in a consistent runtime over all desktops and device.
Open Source Standards are great, but they cant react to trends and developments on the market like proprietary formats which are not open source and are developed by companies (microsoft, adobe etc pp). So this discussion shouldnt be made on Flash vs HTML but on standards vs proprietary formats.

@open screen project read more about the project first. then you might want to rethink your statement. Can all the stakeholders involved in this project be wrong and have a goal that makes no sense? I dont dare to judge that but you go ahead :)

@hype framework: its great buts its no first step its a different approach and Flex offers far more ui components to effectivly create applications (not just banners and “nice” portfolios ;-) )

At the end, the interactive development market is big. theres enough room for various technologies, Javascript, Actionscript, etc are just a few of them. Adapt to your customers and trends and decide which is best for you I’d say :)

just my 2 cents

By: Sven

Sven — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:30:42 +0000

Here is a different point of view on this topic, which has some arguments, too, i think:

http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2009/11/html5-cant-exist-without-the-flash-platform/

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:06:32 +0000

interesting “rant” about flash player 10.1, RIAs, multitouch etc … :)
http://adobegripes.tumblr.com/post/247227342/flash-player-10-1

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By: Rolf

Rolf — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:50:49 +0000

True. Twitter-clients and online image processing tools are the only successful business cases realized with Flash/Air I know. Maybe multitouch environments will be a field where it makes sense to use flash apart from brand websites – maybe not.