I have always believed Flash should be used sparingly in websites. It’s okay for occasional animation — you know, a bit of flash. But as a whole site? I never saw how it was worth it. Its lack of search engine indexing notwithstanding, it is cumbersome to update, and expensive to produce. There always seemed too much was sacrificed for it’s, er, flashiness.
And of course the iPhone wouldn’t play the swf files. Steve Jobs blamed Flash for not running well on mobile iOS. People predicted with each upgrade that this iPhone would be Flash-enabled, and when it never happened people were ticked off. I don’t mean to sound hindsightly and sage, but I never thought it was coming.
And now it never will. Adobe just killed development of Flash for all mobile browsers. I can’t say that I am sad about it. I never missed it.
RELATED POSTS:
