The Truth about Flash
No flash support and no multitasking are HUGE mistakes.
This device SCREAMS out for rich interactive flash-type content. I’m not saying Flash necessarily as a platform is the answer, but you need to allow people a way to develop the content this device was made for.
The lack of Flash support should probably be considered a feature, not a bug.
Flash came around a little over a decade ago and promised to be the second coming, but by removing all restrictions from design the result was that everyone tried reinventing the wheel. This made navigating the web a confusing, inconstant thing: back buttons broke, permalinks were non-existant, and visiting a webpage ended up monopolizing an entire core of your 2.66GHz dual-core $2,500 laptop.
Rich interfaces promise to be done better, faster, and more consistently using HTML5, CSS3, and robust JavaScript engines like those Apple and Google have engineered. It is thus my hope that Apple’s sluggishness (or perhaps strategic reluctance?) to implement Flash support on Mobile Safari will encourage the web to get past its unfortunate flirtation with Flash.
First, I agree.
Second, the overwhelming majority of people are dipshits. Flash isn’t so much a technology solution as it is a dipshit pacifier.
Dipshit web users can’t install codecs. Flash pacifies.
Dipshit designers don’t want to put in work on cross-browser comptibility. Flash pacifies.
Dipshit upper management loves stuff that looks (to their ingenuous eyes) “high tech”. Flash pacifies.
Dipshits are infinitely easier to pacify than they are to educate. Until all dipshits die, the only way to kill Flash is with a more convenient dipshit pacifier.
I’m not sure HTML 5, CSS 3, jquery or anything else currently extant, can deliver.
