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Comment on Flex Barcode Component by Fernando Valentini

Fernando Valentini — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:22:03 +0000

Hi there! I’m trying to see the demo but the page is not loading. Can you send to my email?

Comment on Cthulhu Fail by Julia

Julia — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:13:07 +0000

Two tentacles up!!!

Comment on The iPad is only a consumer device meme by dorkbot

dorkbot — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:10:00 +0000

Flash is a huge platform with probably the best dev environments for artist and programmers giving them the ability to easily disseminate their content with no gate keepers. It foster garage band developers like me who can easily make games with one or two people and get it out on the web with no bottle neck, and accessible to over 90% of all computers. Flash development is diverse to the nth degree, an illustrator/animator can work in the very same application that a programmer can work in and create powerful applications and games.
http://bit.ly/cWmNar

Unfortunately, often Flash movies are not developed by people who know how to do proper garbage cleaning, which results in CPU drain or crashes. It’s a negative side effect of an accessible dev tool. And ad banners have a rapid dev cycle and are usually made for Flash 8, have crazy tracking stuff in them, and, speaking from experience, often done by not the best programmers, so flash ads often cause a lot of problems.

But I don’t have any issue with Flash crashing any of my browsers, and I do a lot of testing of Flash content. I do have problems with some ad systems that play ads before a game or movie which are Flash with javascript swapping the content. But I have seen 0 issues with Flash in general crashing any browser, it’s always caused by some bad coding (by me) and so I fix it, or the there’s something funky with how the flash is embedded on the page, but not caused by the Flash player or just Flash in general. As a part of testing we also leave browsers with our content open for 24 hours to check for CPU spiking, if we find any, I’m always able to fix it, and again it’s my code that is the culprit, not Flash.

HTML5 will replace one or two of the examples on this page, but until there’s a JavaScript dev tool that resembles Flash, and has the frame rate and visual effects etc., Flash will be used a lot for some time, and I’m certain that Apple wont allow it on the iPhone because Flash playing in Safari will take too much steam from their App Store. While Flash 10.1 works perfectly on Android, Palm OS and more.

I make Flash games : ) okay so I’m biased. http://www.dayvid.com/games

Comment on The iPad is only a consumer device meme by Pansy Woodfield

Pansy Woodfield — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:18:14 +0000

Alot of bloggers aren’t very happy with the new iPad.There was 2 much hype regarding it and alot people got disapointed.You see, I can actually see some of the awesome potential uses of the gizmo. Third-party soft for doing music, games, newsprints and magazines and FFS books, all sorts of neat stuff, but IMHO they failed to sell it very well (excluding the books). It smells kinda incomplete

Comment on The iPad is only a consumer device meme by iBrent

iBrent — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:32:59 +0000

I guess my motives are the fact that I hate dealing with cross-browser inconsistencies, and why I love working with Flash. =D Any browser inconsistencies in Flash content experience are usually few and far between.

True, I rely on Adobe to maintain the player on multiple browsers, which can be seen as a “closed” system. Yet with HTML5, we’re seeing each browser manufacturing controlling what they will support, so we’re stuck with inconsistent experiences. All I can say is, my headaches got much smaller when I started working with Flash. ;-)

iBrent

Comment on The iPad is only a consumer device meme by robert

robert — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:52:42 +0000

I totally agree with you and see the irony in my inability to serve videos that work for every browser. Also, in the text I admit that those two excuses for not wanting Flash are not really excuses and that my real reason is to push html 5 video. So, it still stands: if companies bend to Apple’s will by making their content available on html 5 video then yay to me. And, I continue to be ashamed that I’m sort of ok with this happening!! I don’t disagree with you, and I want a better way. I’m just being honest about my motives.

Comment on The iPad is only a consumer device meme by iBrent

iBrent — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:46:55 +0000

So by pushing forward HTML5 adoption, you’re embedding videos that don’t play in the top two browsers (IE and FF)? Yet if you use Flash for video content, you wouldn’t have this problem.

I can appreciate your point on consumer devices, and I agree that it will be interesting to see how the iPad will be adopted, but saying Flash is a CPU hog, and has annoying intros, points to an outdated way of thinking.

iBrent

Comment on Cthulhu Fail by Under Vhoorl’s Shadow » Twitter’s Fail Cthulhu

Under Vhoorl’s Shadow » Twitter’s Fail Cthulhu — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:44:47 +0000

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Comment on Cthulhu Fail by robert

robert — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:29:24 +0000

Yeah, I made it. Thanks for posting it on your site