IPad, It doesn't Support FLASH!

nulabert

Unbelievable! :rolleyes:

whiterebel

nulabert wrote: »

Unbelievable! :rolleyes:

Just heard the Titanic sank as well......

super_furry

It doesn't do a hell of a lot of things any basic netbook does. It does look pretty though.

conolan

Huge numbers of sites with flash photo galleries won't work on iPad. And because most developers don't allow for a replacement graphic when flash is missing, there'll just be a white hole.

alex73

nulabert wrote: »

Unbelievable! :rolleyes:

Well known for a long time.... sames as iphone/Itouch.

Tom Dunne

nulabert wrote: »

Unbelievable! :rolleyes:

Seriously, where have you been for the past three years?

It's not news.

Creamy Goodness

The ONLY thing flash is good for was streaming media. Now that html5 is out there's no need for flash.

Flash gives an awful browsing experience. Anyone who uses it in web design in any shape or form should be thrown off a cliff.

Basq

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

Flash gives an awful browsing experience. Anyone who uses it in web design in any shape or form should be thrown off a cliff.

Spot on!

At one stage, it was innovative and useful for doing things like flashy slideshows but Ajax / Mootools / JQuery has filled that hole using Javascript and XML. And now every second site is offering free Flash templates.

I'd never use it in a website speaking personally!

Stuxnet

no flash ='s stuck with mobile porn sites :mad:

Basq

BOBBY wrote: »

no flash ='s stuck with mobile porn sites :mad:

Christ.. remind me never to borrow your iPad without using a blacklight and dropping it in a bucket of bleach first! :eek:

conolan

basquille wrote: »

At one stage, it was innovative and useful for doing things like flashy slideshows but Ajax / Mootools / JQuery has filled that hole using Javascript and XML. And now every second site is offering free Flash templates.

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

The ONLY thing flash is good for was streaming media. Now that html5 is out there's no need for flash.

Flash gives an awful browsing experience. Anyone who uses it in web design in any shape or form should be thrown off a cliff.

Typical techie zealots. Expecting everyone to use latest and greatest and condemning those who don't.
Flash works in over 90% of browsers. HTML5 doesn't.
Flash has been around for years, HTML5 spec not even complete

Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML5 specification, expects the specification to reach the W3C Candidate Recommendation stage during 2012

funkyjebus

how sh!t. even my n900 manages a better job. it is shiny though, which is why it gets its sale. all so silly think they look cool. its about the same size as a notebook albeit thinner, yet it does half the stuff you'd expect a budget laptop to do.

Basq

conolan wrote: »

Typical techie zealots. Expecting everyone to use latest and greatest and condemning those who don't.
Flash works in over 90% of browsers. HTML5 doesn't.
Flash has been around for years, HTML5 spec not even complete

Nonsense.. AJAX is HTML 4 compliant and I've seen some massively impressive things from Mootools and jQuery that would certainly be compared to Flash without the need for an external plugin / player.

Just some examples: http://speckyboy.com/2008/12/15/best-ever-65-mootools-plugins-and-demos-is-it-better-than-jquery/

BarackSlideshow: http://devthought.com/wp-content/projects/mootools/barackslideshow/Demo/

Parallax: http://webdev.stephband.info/parallax_demos.html

I'm not saying in any way that the lack of Flash support is disappointing.. of course it is!

But christ, it's not the "killer" most people are making it out to be.

Leiva

whiterebel wrote: »

Just heard the Titanic sank as well......

Yea and Guess what I just heard ....

VHS wont play BETAMAX :eek:

Dades

I'm working in online video content delivery for 10 years - Flash may not be the best video transport - but it is not going away. We have clients migrating from WM to Flash still. A lot of interest is in Silverlight and iPhone (.m3u8) streaming - but nobody with any popular content has expressed any interested in HTML5 yet. It too new and undefined.

As suggested - to techies, newer technologies are more attractive - but content providers know what makes end users comfortable. And right now that's flash and silverlight.

AJAX and JQuery are great - but they won't fill the hole in your browser where the video goes!

Leiva

Dades wrote: »

I'm working in online video content delivery for 10 years - Flash may not be the best video transport - but it is not going away. We have clients migrating from WM to Flash still. A lot of interest is in Silverlight and iPhone (.m3u8) streaming - but nobody with any popular content has expressed any interested in HTML5 yet. It too new and undefined.

As suggested - to techies, newer technologies are more attractive - but content providers know what makes end users comfortable. And right now that's flash and silverlight.

AJAX and JQuery are great - but they won't fill the hole in your browser where the video goes!

New technologies are always more attractive ...but aint FLASH still a bit of a CPU Hog ? and not great for the smart phone/mobile device .

Katniss everMean

super_furry wrote: »

It doesn't do a hell of a lot of things any basic netbook does. It does look pretty though.

That's because its not a netbook!!! I find myself having to say this to people at least once a day at this stage ;_:

Its not a netbook its a device for browsing the internet, reading a paper maybe watch a movie or two on the bus etc.

Dades

mixednuts wrote: »

New technologies are always more attractive ...but aint FLASH still a bit of a CPU Hog ? and not great for the smart phone/mobile device .

True! No Flash on an iPhone is understandable - but not on a, larger, custom-made home surfing device, methinks.

conolan

Reports on iPad say it's fast. So flash isn't going to be much of a problem there. Some of us are old enough to remember flash on 256M RAM.

Clearly Apple are up to something in respect of flash replacement. Perhaps they have a new scriptable quicktime in the works.

Khannie

conolan wrote: »

Reports on iPad say it's fast. So flash isn't going to be much of a problem there. Some of us are old enough to remember flash on 256k RAM.

That OS must have been hand crafted in 1's and 0's. I think you mean 256M.

I haven't found the lack of flash in the iPhone a problem. Of course with a larger device it may be more of an issue. I think though that sites will start developing non-flash versions if enough iPads get sold.

nulabert

alex73 wrote: »

Well known for a long time.... sames as iphone/Itouch.

:eek: