Tag: apple
Virgin Airlines removes all FLASH to make the web a faster place
by Andy on Mar.04, 2010, under Computers & Technology, Events, Internet Culture, Networking, Security
In a move to stop CPU waste from processing bloated content, Virgin Airlines has trash-canned all of their FLASH content. I commend them on this move; someone needed to start the movement. Flash is bloated. End of story. There is no standard, there is no open source, and there is no relief. As soon as you start adding flash to a site, you’ve degraded the ability of the browser.
“Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy… Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash…The world is moving to HTML5.” — Wired
(HAHA!). But flash has it’s place, it is the best medium to deliver video on a web page and play web-games.
Hopefully, HTML5 can fix the web game problem.
Adding my own flavor to this post:
Over the technology years, flash has been metaphorically turned into a baseball bat by business owners and web publishers. This proverbial baseball bat has been beaten across every web developer’s face (repeatedly) for the last 11 years and there hasn’t been anything that the developers can do about it. You MUST specialize in flash, to make flash.
New personal hero: Ravi Simhambhatla
He has some sweet open source ideals as well.
wow, you made it..
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