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John Gruber has said some great things about Adobe’s news, but this is his best point:
Apple didn’t win. Everybody won. Flash hasn’t been superseded in mobile by any sort of Apple technology. It’s been superseded by truly open web technologies. Dumping Flash will make Android better, it will make BlackBerrys better, it will make the entire web better. iOS users have been benefitting from this ever since day one, in June 2007.
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Why do people want Flash on these devices again?
There is no job that plugins are the right tool for. Saying that plugins ‘have their place’ is ignorant and complacent.
This will replace Flash.
Pretty bad. In fact, if you’re thinking video, utterly unusable.
It’s like a bad joke, the Android browsing experience is already pretty clunky looking when you sit it next to the iPhone and the huge black rectangles jumping around the page 5 frames too late as it struggles to redraw really doesn’t help. Looks completely hacked in and half arsed, this is supposed to be Adobe’s flagship mobile product and this is the best they can deliver?
Apologist geeks in the comments are trying to justify that the videos should have been re-encoded but doesn’t that completely defeat the argument that Flash should have been on the iPhone? By that logic you are suggesting that video makers re-encode all their video, Adobe programs Flash for iPhone and Apple allows it on their phones just to save you reprogramming a video player… because that’s the only part of this chain which hasn’t had to be completely changed just to get that video to the device via Flash.
I’ll remember this video next time Shantanu Narayen spews forth more bullshit like the following
I think we’ve proven that the technology is not only suitable but it actually significantly enhances the value on these mobile devices.
Amazing. This reminds me of the kinds of effects I would look at when I was first learning to use Flash, and now Flash is no longer needed. Hooray!
(People have been complaining that the iPhone does not support Flash for years now, and yet no other phone has support for it yet either.)
Dean Hachamovitch
General Manager, Internet Explorer
Sorry Flash, your days are numbered.
He discovered this bug in September of 2008 and has reported it to Adobe, which hasn’t fixed it yet.
16 months later.
If you’d like to test it for yourself, make sure there’s nothing important open in your browser window and head to http://flashcrash.dempsky.org/.
Safari and Google Chrome are fine, as they have separated the plugin into its own process, meaning it crashes the plugin and not the browser. But IE and Firefox will quit as soon as you visit the page.
