Comments on: The grand No Flash experiment (update)

By: Richard Hollon

Richard Hollon — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:45:00 +0000

You can always use Yelp (even in Safari) to look up a restaurant’s business hours.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:04:00 +0000

I have to switch over for those other things. Plus, many sites are designed to detect tablets and appropriately load HTML5 video, instead of using the feature detection approach.

The only thing I can’t really do on an iPad is browse restaurant websites. And those sites aren’t snazzy, they’re atrocious.

Games are another thing that Flash is Good At, but I don’t play Flash games on my iPad, I play things from the App Store.

By: Nathan Alden

Nathan Alden — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:53:00 +0000

“It is not possible (yet) to use the internet without Flash” is contradicted by the very next sentence that states you do the bulk of your browsing on the iPad. It seems to be possible after all. I guess I’m not sure what the point of this post is. Flash/Silverlight do things you can’t do with straight markup and CSS, and they meet a very large demand for streaming video, better file upload techniques and snazzy Web site designs. Like anything else it can be overused, but until a superior technology comes along (along with a good adoption rate) it’s what we all must work with.

By: Chris Tavares

Chris Tavares — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:01:00 +0000

Actually, the Win8 immersive browser doesn’t support any plugins at all, so no, Win8 won’t do the trick either. You can use the desktop browser, but that’s not as smooth when using it on a tablet.

By: Steve Sheldon

Steve Sheldon — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:55:00 +0000

Flash has now become IE6.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:25:00 +0000

Why is it that every one preaches don’t break the web, but when it comes to flash it’s ok? Think how much better our HTML, JavaScript and CSS standard and browsers would be if they would force people to update their web page to render correctly.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:58:00 +0000

I don’t care about specs. I care about a slick, easy to use device, which I got for $500.

Turns out, only a small minority of tablet buyers actually care about specs (and Flash). Those folks are buying Android slates, at a much, much smaller volume.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:41:00 +0000

Yes things will get better, mark my words…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:41:00 +0000

3x worse : your personal opinion, but cost double ? 64GB Ipad with 3g is 800 + change. You should get same spec with Windows 8 when released at the same price.

By: Simonas

Simonas — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:36:00 +0000

I don’t use Flash for around half year now. I compile Chromium by hands however. For sites such as Youtube and Vimeo there’s always HTML5 Player, which works perfectly. Just don’t forget to make it use system ffmpeg libraries.

Well, there’s of course are sites which goes flash-only way, however these often are as bad as it could get – too much animations and no actual content, so I just close the tab as I see “You need Flash x.y Installed to see this site”.