tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973385176024266341.post4356447360040455851..comments2023-11-29T22:48:49.849-06:00Comments on The Creative Cooler: Adobe vs. AppleChristinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16534923097160591419noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6973385176024266341.post-26293961735244610122010-05-22T19:13:01.624-05:002010-05-22T19:13:01.624-05:00I am OK with letting Flash go away while HTML5 rep...I am OK with letting Flash go away while HTML5 replaces it. Flash was a plugin created by Macromedia to give us some interactive features in the browser which were not possible before. In the last few years much of the the interactivity has been done with JavaScript and jQuery and it has worked well. HTML5 adds video support to the browser along with the Canvas tag which is a powerful 2D drawing surface. There is so much that you can do with it and it is an open web standard and Adobe could now make tools to help their customers build interactive web sites with these open standards instead of prolonging the life of a technology they acquired when they took over Macromedia.<br /><br />And now Adobe wants all apps to be build with Flash. They want to take over the desktop and all mobile platforms. This would be a very bad development if this ever happend. The biggest complaint about Flash is the fact that it chews up your processor. Did you know that there are no tools available from Adobe to profile Flash apps to discover the bottlenecks which need to be optimized? If this were a serious platform it would at least have tools to help the developer optimize their app for processor and memory usage.<br /><br />I do not use Adobe AIR applications because after they have been running a while they are typically using over 1GB of memory. Adobe needs to stop picking fights with others and focus on making their offerings better.creedthoughtshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15543422436589753292noreply@blogger.com