January 2010
11 posts
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“Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy. […] Whenever a Mac...”
– Steve Jobs, CEO Apple
Well I think that just about sums up the debate here.
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[FormSpring] What about Farmville?
The first FormSpring question.
If Farmville wants to hit the mobile market it could. If I was them I would build a web application built for mobiles. Using Javascript for animations and any basic effects. Although its worth remembering the device we are dealing with here.
Mobiles dont have a lot of graphical ompfh nor not a lot of memory. So Farmville Lite would be a good option.
It’s up...
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[POLL] Why do you want Flash? →
Can anyone visiting that still wants Flash on the iPhone, iPad and other mobile devices answer this poll.
Im gathering information and trying to find out what the people want.
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Flash test results and why it shouldn't be mobile
I did a test to see how consuming Flash was on a computer.
Now it would be wrong of me to just blatantly say “You’re battery will die before the video ends” when using Flash on a mobile device. I know Flash would have a cut down version for mobile, I know that.
So we cant really compare these results outright. But lets not totally throw out the test. It’s an indication.
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Watts, Amps, Degrees. How does Flash fair?
I did a test. A test to measure the usage of energy comparing Flash and Quicktime (native OS player).
Test Environment:
Macbook Pro 2.16GHz Core 2 Duo (early 2007) 3 GB RAM 128MB ATI Radeon X1600 Snow Leopard 10.6
Using iStat Menu’s as a source for the live values.
Starting Values:
CPU Amps: 4A CPU Watts: 3.68W CPU Temp: 58˚C
Quicktime:
Test: 45 second sample of the Iron Man 2...
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Vimeo moves to HTML 5 video playback, in Beta →
Vimeo is joining YouTube in the move from Flash to HTML 5 and browser based players.
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Flash on mobile devices, privacy disaster waiting...
If you have an iPhone think about this. How much personal data is on that device? All your Contacts, SMS’s, Call Records, Emails, Notes, Photos, Videos, Web History, Passwords?
Now what would happen if someone got access to all that information? Well you would have your identity stolen. All of that information is more than enough for someone to create a duplicate of you and start taking out...
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“The number of Lifehacker visitors without Flash installed enabled nearly tripled...”
– Flash’s Decline on Lifehacker, from 2006 to 2010 | Smarterware (via oliyoung)
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Ask a question regarding Flash and/or Flash on... →
Created a FormSpring account so anyone, especially the people opposed to my opinions, can throw me a question.
I’d love to see what you have to ask.
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Video 3.0, sans-Flash
The web has grown up in terms of multimedia. It started off with video files just rawly linked in a page, download to view.
Then came the in-browser plug-ins and depending on what you did or didn’t have plugged in you may or may not have been able to see what the website had to offer. I particularly remember stupidvideos.com and having to use the Quicktime plug-in.
Enter Flash. Although it...
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Flash, DO NOT WANT!
It has become the multimedia Swiss army knife of the Internet, until now.
Flash is just not needed any more. Nor is it needed to be supported by mobile devices. Here’s some quick points why mobile devices or tablets dont need Flash.
For most Flash objects there is an alternative. Exhibit A: revision3.com has multiple video encodings that dont require Flash to be able to use the site.
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