With all the web page ads delivered in Flash, when I turn on "right-click flash" none of them come up! My web browsing is much quicker, I get to ignore 90% of the ads without even trying. If there is something I really want to see, I can click on it - otherwise it is just an empty box.
Sooner or later everyone will move to HTML5 and it will be more difficult to block the crap. Until then - I love Flash ads!
Thing is, the so called web standards cannot to this day garantee that a web application will work on all browsers in the same fashion and with the same looks. I am getting tired of having to debug an application using standards that works in one browser and not the next.
The only real standard of the web is Flash. 99% penetration is a standard whether one likes it or not. period.
Even Flash is not that much of a standard by the criteria you put forth. I have seen Flash animations behave differently based on OS, browser, plugin/player and platform.
Don't blame buggy or sloppy implementation of the standards for the problems.
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What this article presents is the current state of affairs vs FLASH...
Uh, no it doesn't. This article is from 2008.
With all the web page ads delivered in Flash, when I turn on "right-click flash" none of them come up! My web browsing is much quicker, I get to ignore 90% of the ads without even trying. If there is something I really want to see, I can click on it - otherwise it is just an empty box.
Sooner or later everyone will move to HTML5 and it will be more difficult to block the crap. Until then - I love Flash ads!
Thing is, the so called web standards cannot to this day garantee that a web application will work on all browsers in the same fashion and with the same looks. I am getting tired of having to debug an application using standards that works in one browser and not the next.
The only real standard of the web is Flash. 99% penetration is a standard whether one likes it or not. period.
Even Flash is not that much of a standard by the criteria you put forth. I have seen Flash animations behave differently based on OS, browser, plugin/player and platform.
Don't blame buggy or sloppy implementation of the standards for the problems.