The Macalope, via The Macalope Weekly: The Jerk Store. Love the sarcasm.
For its part, Adobe would like to portray Flash as some noble gift that it has graciously bestowed upon the world, leading to a utopia of ubiquitous porn clips, time-wasting tower defense games, and artsy “web sites” where you can’t link to anything specific.
Okay – I have to comment on the last part. SWFAddress is a wonderful script that allows linking to specific pages. As for the Flash hating: when used right, flash is an awesome tool. It allows for user interaction and animations that won’t be possible to replicate cross-browser (IE7 and 6 included) with HTML 5, CSS and javascript for a very long time coming. It has it’s place – it just needs to be used right by people who know what they’re doing… like any other tool.
Who care about IE6, 7, or 8? They’re so far behind other browsers it’s not even worthwhile to care that they don’t support HTML5 or most of the current CSS3.
I’ve used some flash in various places, but I wouldn’t be unhappy to see it go away for good. I agree with Apple that it is buggy and has issues. H.264 is the new way. In fact, in a new Mashable poll, over double the readers preferred to see Flash go bye bye.
http://mashable.com/2010/02/26/html5-flash-poll/
I, for one, care about IE 6,7 and 8. I have to. Based on recent stats, somewhere between 30 and 50 percent (http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp, http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php) of internet users still use those browsers. We can’t be ignorant of that fact (as much as we’d like to be). If a site doesn’t work, a user just won’t come back.
I thought I’d let you know that I’ve started a list of Bethlehem Blogs and I’ve added yours.
http://jamsco.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/bethlehem-blogs
Please take a look and let me know if you want me to take it off the list or change anything.