I love twitter but not a day passes by where I don’t see a ‘Flash Killer’ tweet or article. Flash users fight for Flash and accessibility enthusiasts fight for HTML5. Why has nobody stopped to think that all these platforms can co-exist?
HTML5 is great I’ll give it that and anything it can be used for I believe it should when the time is right. We have to face the reality that HTML5 cannot do as much as Flash can technically, both platforms have their strong points and weaknesses. People consider the Flash Platform to be taxing on computer performance, I argue that this is not true, the content that Flash designers work on are typically very rich and complicated media, this media would be taxing in any format. I have seen some awesome HTML5 demos and it’s capability has been outstanding however it is no better than Flash in its capabilities and as far as I’m concerned for many years coming more people will have the Flash player plug-in than those who have HTML5 capable browsers.
When you enter the mobile sector though the debate is even stronger, most of the new mobile platforms at the moment support Flash and HTML5, except for the iPhone. The debate on performance and accessibility these platforms is a hot topic at the moment and I believe that people need to calm down and let the platforms co-exist with one another to make a more dynamic and richer internet experience. Also don’t get me started on Unity!
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Some of you may have noticed a lack of posts recently, that’s because I’ve been busy with my latest project – Flash User Group UK.
That’s right, it’s finally set up and ready to go with the first meeting planned for mid April, I hope to see some of you guys there the ones who can’t make it we will be throwing the footage of the event onto the groups website. As any new group we need as much support as you can so can you e-mail, tweet and shout about it as much as possible.
[Hit the Flash User Group UK's Website for more details]
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If the site looks a little funky for the next few days it’s because I’m doing some changing to the layout/theme and I figured why block people from viewing it while I’m at it! Let me know what you think!
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With the upcoming release of 1080p video on YouTube I couldn’t be happier to have a new GPU accelerated Flash Player! Flash Player 10.1 gives some significant improvement upon the previous builds. No mobile release as of yet but you can rock HD on your even on your Nvidia ION. If you kitted out for it you even now have native-multi-touch support! Although the player is in pre-release I would still highly recommend it as I have found it to be nothing but stable. Besides in this day in age of Web 2.0 doesn’t everything have a BETA label on it? Get it here!
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The image you see above is a genarative diagram map of the internet, crated as part of the opte project. The internet is a huge part of all of our lives, especialy us web developers and in the UK we have a very poor network.
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Sorry guys no posts today! It’s my birthday, but hey as a present to you download the cake by clicking the image above!
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So I hope you’ve all been enjoying the site! I have 10 Wave invites to give away to the first 10 people to tweet the URL of their favourite post along with the tag #flashplus. If you want one get cracking as these are the probably last give-aways that I’ll be doing.
If your already on Wave! Great add me on adambu1988@gmail.com to chat and also I’ll add you to my Flash+ Wave so that you guys can contribute to the stories that get posted.
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Hi guys I will be posting videos up on Flash+ as soon as they get released so keep an eye on the main page for more videos.
[Videos After The Break]
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When I create a site the first thing I do is grab a A1 piece of paper and a marker and just go at it with anything that pops into my head today I’m pulling out all of my sheets and seeing what the constants are. So in no particular order here they are:
#1 – [...]
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So it’s been a hard week trying to get this site off the ground, you can thank my friend Lydia for getting me to do this, it’s been surprisingly successful and the response I have received has been phenomenal.
Here’s the most popular 5 posts of the week:
#1 – Soapbox Racer – PaperVison3D Masterpiece
#2 – OMG! [...]
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