By bloid
via nuff-respec.com
Published: Aug 04 2007 / 22:30
When I first saw the headline Flash Sucks on digg I was really perturbed … Flash is a tool, and how people use it is what has the possibility to make it “suck” …
After reading the article, I realize I was a little too hasty in not agreeing, it’s pretty well written and some really REALLY good points, and probably worthwhile for a good number of people who are going to use Flash.
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Tags: flash-flex, opinion
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stimpy77 replied ago:
Bah. It's a mixed bag. Flash technology rawks. I think the people who use it rawk. I think the tools suck. The idea of forcing you to build on a timeline sucks. And Flex being such a dang expensive alternative to timeline-oriented Flash development sucks. I also think binary, more or less proprietary serialization of .swf files sucks; this stuff should be XML-driven. I think Silverlight is a better step, but I've got my eye on HTML 5's Canvas ... inline line art markup, w00t ..
skateinmars.myopenid.com replied ago:
The technology itself is great, but using proprietary components for the web really sucks.
wolfdancer replied ago:
I think at certain point one has to say enough is enough. A tool does not discourage (or worse, encourage) people's bad behavior sucks
jonjonz replied ago:
Flash SUCKS because it is a closed proprietary tool that a great portion of the world finds overpriced and unescessary. Proprietary is anti www.
dbulli replied ago:
Proprietary sucks ... there is no arguing that and while I don't agree with it I can see how a business would can make money from it ... after all that's what allot of people are after ...
But I really feel ... it's people who choose to use it and not in a meaningful way is where it suffers.
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