The Future of Flash

An anonymous reader writes "Adobe is celebrating the 10th anniversary of Flash, and News.com has an article looking at the company's plans for the future of the technology. No longer just a choice for 'innovative' web designers, Adobe is positioning Flash as an application development platform, with special emphasis on video delivery and mobile device applications." From the article: "On Tuesday, the company intends to launch a microsite showing the evolution of Flash over the past 10 years, including video interviews with developers. Those videos will no doubt be played with the Flash Video Player, something many high-profile Web sites, including YouTube, have chosen to use as well. The success of Flash in the next 10 years rides largely on whether leading-edge customers like YouTube will design their Web sites with Flash, Lynch said. Adobe, which gained the Flash technology when it bought Macromedia, is trying to build an 'ecosystem' of developers and partners, he said. "

Flash is to much of a Hog.

[jellomizer]

<Sarcasm> No Flash for me, It takes way to much bandwidth what I do is make each frame and save it as a bmp and use JavaScript to load each frame by frame, It saves a load on bandwidth! Vs. Piggy Flash </Sarcasm>

My plans for Flash

[cerberusss]

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That's right. I have no plans for Flash.

Flash is my second favorite...

[Overzeetop]

...right after the blink tag.

Not just a Flash in the Pan

[giafly]

Flash: Gaudy or ostentatious display [thefreedictionary.com].

Flash

[night_flyer]

a-aaaaa! He'll save every one of us!

CELEBRATING 10 years?

[ScentCone]

I think this is more like remembering Perl Harbor.

Thanks, I'll be here all week. Oh, and try the Flash-Fried Content, and don't forget to tip your web servers. Ba-da-bing!

Matryoshka Dolls

[psbrogna]

Somebody should develop a proprietary scripting language embedded inside flash embedded inside dhtml/javascript. Cause as we all know, the more nested layers of closed-architecture, write once, run one-place, functional redundancy a page has the cooler it is.

To paraphrase Edward R. Tufte...

[kvn]

Flash brought us the two worst words on the Internet:

"Skip Intro"

skip intro

[aexiphixion]

nothing to see here.. move along

Plus, Flash is a W3C standard.

[alienmole]

...oh wait, it's not. I guess all the rest is pretty moot, then.