Adobe Flash, R.I.P.

[DannoXYZ]

I think the biggest nail in Flash's coffin is that it was developed at a time when smart-phones were not around. No one was using web-content on cell-phones at the time. All Flash development was focused for desktops and their abundant resources.

Even when smart-phones came out, they had limited network bandwidth, CPU and RAM, not to mention battery-life. Porting Flash for mobile devices only came later and it was never successful. Not to mention the majority of smart-phones on the market didn't support Flash for years (in fact, the majority still don't anyway). HTML5 is the future because its standards were and are developed with mobile devices in mind.

Hopefully it'll be more universally accepted soon, I'm sick of having to remote into my home computer just to access sites that use Flash.

 

[Diezel]

Have you noticed how focused Intel has been on making it's mobile notebook processors as energy efficient as possible? How they have publicly admitted they screwed up by not seeing where the computer industry is going? If your argument is that flash will survive BECAUSE it uses a lot of energy, then flash is definitely dead. I'm surrounded by web designers, and they only use Flash because they have to. The lack of mobile flash will only accelerate HTML5 and it won't be long before developers abandon Flash entirely.

I don't think you really paid attention to what I said...

At the time that flash took off, all there was for "interactive" websites was basically Dhtml and Java. Also during that time you might recall all the BS that started between MS and Sun because of Java. This made Flash a very entertaining and obvious vehicle for Multi-Platform interactive media.

I think the biggest nail in Flash's coffin is that it was developed at a time when smart-phones were not around. No one was using web-content on cell-phones at the time. All Flash development was focused for desktops and their abundant resources.

Precisely. When flash came into the spot light, everything was all about faster processors, more memory and the holy grail that is high speed internet. Throw that on top of what I mentioned earlier about Java and MS vs Sun. And you can see why many people flocked to Flash.