JAB_Creations - 5:54 pm on Aug 1, 2011 (gmt 0)

Flash will be around so long as Internet Explorer continues to fail to support (X)HTML5 audio and video elements. For clarification the H.264 codec is completely tied to licensing and patent trolls so it is not welcomed on the web or really any where for that matter (and DivX and XVID both are H.264 much to the dismay of many friends). So since IE10 will likely not support the HTML5 video element I think Flash will be used for multimedia presentations well in to the 2030s, I'm absolutely serious.

Furthermore the idea is great but it doesn't work on XP. Since Microsoft lost their marbles and have been destroying all their products (Office, Windows V/7, etc) I can't recommend this. I used a system plagued by the anti-intuitive, cumbersome and slow Windows 7 to run the program. There are demos you can download which makes it easier to understand what you're looking at.

Unfortunately I really can't recommend this, jQuery is involved. After disabling JavaScript in Firefox 5.0 and Safari 5.1 I opened the demonstration and absolutely nothing happened; after enabling JavaScript in both browsers it worked. Frameworks are cumbersome and slow and I would never tell a client to load a 71kb framework related file for a desktop much less a mobile device, benchmarks show that native execution absolutely blows frameworks away. I could maybe understand if it was there in case basic DOM detection determined that native CSS3 wasn't supported in the client's browser. Of course it's only an initial preview however it's exceptionally unlikely that Adobe will move in the correct direction, too many developers are mindlessly dependent on frameworks to do even the simplest of tasks. I liked the idea though the execution is horribly bloated.

- John