Comments on: Why I Don’t Like Flash

By: Binny V A

Binny V A — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:26:26 +0000

I am the author of the Gallifrey plugin — and I’m really glad that you got the reference. Very few people get it.

And yes, I hate Flash too. I’m a Javascript programmer — and for us, hating flash is in the job requirement ;-)

By: ryan

ryan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:05:38 +0000

you also fail to point out that Jakob Nielson’s article was written in 2000. Do you have any idea how much flash has changed in 10 years?

It is now the most advanced ECMA compliant OOP programming language there is, beyond C++ and Java. It is easily the most advanced and scale-able web application architecture for platform development there is, head and shoulders above its competitors.

By: ryan

ryan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:02:57 +0000

incidentally, flash does not “refuse to display on iphones”. Apple refuses to accept it because it would potentially threaten their closed app store monopoly.

By: ryan

ryan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:59:32 +0000

flash is actually an excellent tool if you know how to use it and what it is best used for. What I would like to suggest is we see an end to “people who think they know how to program but really dont” pushing their poorly built stuff all over the web.

Unfortunately, people end up using various 1 button solutions or templates or whatever all to actively avoid having to learn anything, and that is, in my opinion, the root cause of bad websites. I see all kinds of html and javascript errors as I go from browser to browser, not to mention this site, which failed to load its CSS properly the first time I came to it and all the text was jumbled up for the first 30 seconds or so.

So, in summary, the problem is bad programming, not a specific technology.