Fucking Magnets! How do they work?

Sorry, my bad-- I was a little riled up by all the "Herp derp, wasting tax dollars for game related programs" trolling on the thread, and vented on you. My apologies.

Right, archiving is a total waste. Who needs the Rosetta Stone when we can just translate to English and throw the original away? That's certainly efficient, and will have no detrimental effects on our understanding of history. Maybe we can convert all records of human learning and knowledge into tweets or lolspeak and burn all original texts, no point in trying to justify the impracticality of maintaining anything that isn't current or faddish.

On a related note, I was involved in an exhibition that featured some work by Nam June Paik, the video artist-- the curator had to dig up a laserdisc player for the show since that's how his work was originally archived. It was a PITA, but that's how his estate wanted it... to preserve the "original" video.

Mod parent +1 esperanto!

Sure I do. For instance, developing educational software, training applications for mechanical/auto (flash is great at 3d and object handling-- perfect for interior vehicle/mechanical interactivity)

Oh yeah-- and games. Unless you don't consider game development to be "real" programming.

Devs use the appropriate tool for the job-- occasionally (not always, I'm not a crazy person) that tool is flash.

Eye roll all you want, but my points about user experience are valid. Flash is great at:
-- animation and synching audio support
-- a really deep audio toolkit-- you can tweak audio data down to the sample bit, I've rolled my own mp3 guitar effects box in flash with about 100 lines of code
-- seamless video embedding
-- consistent color space
-- robust and consistent font support
-- resolution independent vector graphics

Now, there's a ton of stuff flash sucks at-- memory sucking first and foremost, which is a dealbreaker for mobile... which is also a dealbreaker for commercial web development. Certainly no one appreciates poorly-written browser crashing apps built by total n00bs (as if you don't get that with javascript, php, ruby, etc). But to my mind, the advantages that HTML5 has in cross-platform and even cross browser development are spotty at best, and certainly not ready for prime time. I would prefer to see flash limp along for a couple more years until HTML5 has a deeper toolbox.

Ugh. Nice try.

You meant to say, "Yes.... sometimes... on Safari, and maybe Chrome... Firefox kinda.... IE if the moon is full on a third thursday of a leap year".

The bitch about HTML 5 is that it will never, ever, have a consistent standard that corresponds what USERS really want--animation and syncing audio support, seamless video embedding, consistent color space and font support. Front-end web devs and designers are going to be fucked by this for years to come.

Please mod parent up. Shitty performance == shitty developers most of the time.... no one blames JAVA whenever some dimwit writes a memory-leakin app.

And Flash was a great write-once, deploy anywhere solution to web development. Now I have to worry about what flavor of IE wants to read my css correctly so my client doesn't cry about his fonts not being displayed properly.

Since your knowledge of multimedia on the web only seems to extend as far as the deployment of Silverlight, you probably wouldn't know that Flash has been around since '98. I guess a technology that's been around for 14 years is too flash-in-the-pan for a smart developer to work with.

\Maybe you can spend more time with Ruby on Rails, I'm sure that will still be around for the next decade and a half.\