Flash gives me a headache. I mean it literally shuts down my brain after a fit of over firing neurons from the blinking banner ads, flashing web pages and obnoxious non-support for 64-bit operating systems. Why Adobe, why are you so slow at giving us access to a fully functioning web experience??
But, then again not having a flash plug-in available for my 64-bit laptop it is a filter of sorts. That way I don’t have to tune out the techno-disco light that comes with a flash-enabled web experience. The main downside to my current situation is that I have to switch to a 32-bit IE browser to watch any video created with Flash…what a pain! Maybe Steve Jobs is right when he wrote “Thoughts on Flash.” The web world might be a better place if we didn’t have to suffer through the lack of continuity that diminishes our workflow, our online social networking, and our general productivity. Down with Flash!
Stephen Shankland wanted to find out what was taking Adobe so long in developing the plug-in and did a bit of investigating in the article, “What’s Adobe’s 64-bit Flash plan?” which tells about all the wonderful details it takes for Adobe's developers to reconfigure the libraries used by Flash, but my question is: do we really need Flash? If HTML5 and CSS5 can take the place of Flash for video, then who needs Flash? Unfortunately, we will probably still need Flash for video, but HTML5 and CSS5 will be the preferred method for delivering the unwanted uses of Flash like the ultra-strobe effects of banner ads-bummer.
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