Current Flash bashing mantra
I vowed not to get dragged into this but the fetid stench of bullshit has gotten too overwhelming now.
This whole “No one will be using Flash, the world is moving to HTML5” may be true on mobile browsers and certain mac products due to vendor lock out but lets not believe this hype, the dominant platform today and for the foreseeable future is still windows by a country mile…and I haven’t heard that they as a whole, or of any of the primary browsers running on windows are dropping flash support in any way, have you?Here are some links for you:
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/01/windows-7-growing-faster-than-vista-overtakes-mac-os.ars
Perhaps a more quantifiable statement may read: “No one will be using Mac, the world is moving to Linux”. silly huh? and of course will never happen but at least this statement, as ridiculous as it is has some grounding in the real world…
Lets be clear on one thing. There is no reason what so ever not to use both Flash and technology better suited to a non flash capable environment and serve the best experience based on browser capability and user preference…isn’t that what we’ve been banging on about for years now? Just because a minuscule percentage of desktop users have taken the hump at the beck and call of Apple, doesn’t mean we should exclude a widely used technology from those that require (and want to use) it. If this is the way we did things then we’d have stopped worrying about rendering content for IE, cause y’know it doesn’t run on a mac and the world is moving to chrome…
Monday morning rant over.
