The best way for Adobe to save Flash is by killing it
Feb 02, 2010, 00:03 (2 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Steven Wei)
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"Having done several years of Flash development and having
worked with many Flash developers, the recent controversy between
Apple and Adobe over Flash on the iPad is very amusing to me.
First, there are a few arguments that I want to address directly:
But Flash is the only way to deploy a consistent cross platform
solution!
"Shenanigans. Balderdash. I’ve deployed Flash apps to both
OS X and Linux environments. Let me tell you, it’s not
pretty. The OS X Flash implementation is a second class citizen
compared to the Windows Flash implementation, and the Linux Flash
implementation is a third class citizen. I completely understand
why this is the case (obviously as a company it makes sense to
allocate more development resources towards your largest userbase).
But the problem remains, and the OS X/Linux Flash players are
nowhere near the same level of performance and stability as the
Windows version. Given the allocation of resources distributed
towards each player implementation, I doubt they will ever be.
"(Programmer digression) For example, my ‘favorite’
OS X Flash player limitation is the fact that it will always return
HTTP status codes of 0 whenever you make an URL request. Want to
follow 302 redirects like any sane application interacting over
HTTP needs to do? Sorry, you’ve got to roll your own!"
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