One of the common complaints that had been going around with iPhone and iPads (that name still brings me a little chuckle) is the lack of Flash support.
During the last big reveal of the iPad, Steve Jobs was quoted to have said that they had no plans to adopt Flash for their devices because he thought Flash was buggy and that it would get replaced with HTML5.
Whoa, did I just go over your heads? You know, for a majority of people I meet on a day-to-day basis, this will probably be meaningless to you as well. I think the average Joe I meet looking to have their 1st website, cares little about what Flash or HTML is. I’m going to try not to add to your confusion. There are enough articles about what this is about. Discussions from people who support Flash, and discussions about how Flash might disappear because Jobs said so. It basically comes down to figuring out if your website looks as it is intended to your visitors, or if they end up seeing plug-in errors like the blue lego.
Personally, I think Flash will stick around for a little while. It’s being used on some of the biggest sites out there. But don’t dismiss the fact that a few million iPhone users and what soon may be a whole slew of mobile tablet readers (e.g., iPads, Kindles, Nooks), will definitely impact what can be used on your websites. And if this HTML5 alternative really does pick up as a standard, it just might make a huge dent against what once was a huge Flash-loving industry.
My money is on trying to avoid Flash on websites as much as possible for now unless there’s no other option. Looks like there just might be other options coming around the corner. Good riddance.
LoweStudio Inc was founded by me, Raphael Lowe, a Honolulu based illustrator and web designer. I presently design and manage a few dozen commercial websites, but my main focus these days is acting as the head developer for Kapiolani Community College and teaching
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