| |||||||||||||
I hope Mozilla funds Gnash developmentI hope Mozilla funds Gnash developmentPosted Feb 22, 2012 16:43 UTC (Wed) by landley (guest, #6789)In reply to: I hope Mozilla funds Gnash development by drag Parent article: No more Flash for Firefox on Linux
I dunno about that. Don't forget that Adobe threw in the towel on flash development for phones last year:
http://www.bgr.com/2011/11/09/flash-in-the-pan-adobe-to-d...
And smartphones are to the PC what the PC was to minicomputers, and mainframes before that. Plug your phone into a USB docking station and install a native compiler, and who needs a PC anymore? (Yeah yeah, "That commodore 64 will never displace my VAX" and so on... Been there, done that. Nobody needed to visit The Computer Room when they had their own computer on their desk, and nobody needs the computer on their desk when they have one in their pocket 24/7. And Flash gave up there already.)
This whole article boils down to "Adobe abandons flash support on another platform". This is not a Flash success story, this is Flash receding in importance as HTML5 ramps up...
Rob
(Log in to post comments)
I hope Mozilla funds Gnash development Posted Feb 22, 2012 19:10 UTC (Wed) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link] +1 Insightful.Adobe is re-positioning all their content editing tools around HTML5. Flash on the client is on the way out, so their new plan is to convert Flash developers into developers who use newer versions of the same toolset to make HTML5.
I hope Mozilla funds Gnash development Posted Feb 23, 2012 10:50 UTC (Thu) by liljencrantz (subscriber, #28458) [Link]
And a fine plan it is. Some Adobe products are actually very nice, developing a Flash app is often significantly easier than solving the same problem with HTML5. Not because HTML5 is inferior, but because the HTML5 development tools are inferior to those Adobe sells for Flash. But Adobe have been completely terrible at providing a high quality flash browser plug-in. This way, web developers get some very nice options on how to produce their content, but we all get a platform independent, open, fast and bug free web.
I hope Mozilla funds Gnash development Posted Feb 22, 2012 23:44 UTC (Wed) by motk (subscriber, #51120) [Link] And smartphones are to the PC what the PC was to minicomputersPeople keep saying this. I'd need a lot of convincing to believe that Android and ios and WebOS can realistically take the place of a desktop OS, even if a PC eventually ends up being a 24" ipad. Viz Flash vs HTML5 - yep, complete agreement.
I hope Mozilla funds Gnash development Posted Feb 23, 2012 0:12 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
> People keep saying this. I'd need a lot of convincing to believe that Android and ios and WebOS can realistically take the place of a desktop OS
with something like the Ubuntu/android combination, I see a good possibility of this happening for many people (not everyone by any means)
the PC didn't do everything that a minicomputer could do, let alone do it as fast, but it was easier to get going, and far cheaper (again making it far easier to get going with)
With the ability to use a keyboard with your phone, and use a random TV as a display, it becomes very convenient to use your phone for many of the things that a laptop can do. think of it as the next step from a netbook, but you don't sacrifice screen size when doing real work.
|
|||||||||||||