3 posts in 5 minutes on the same article coming from someone who doesn't know jack about what they are talking about, in a blog article they shouldn't be posting in.
@kingofwale No, it will go from big lumbering slow unstable CPU-hogging security nightmare to just a big unstable security nightmare. Flash 10 isn't GPU-accelerated on *any* platform and Windows is the only platform it performs well on. This just means that the future of Flash on OS X has the potential to keep up with Flash on Windows. But Adobe has some catching up to do on the Mac and Linux versions.
Damn Mr. Flash developer if flash works for you good for you, it doesn't work good for everyone. Flash is the biggest reason most browsers crash, why do you think browsers are now coming out with built in flash protection so that if a flash site crashes, it doesn't crash the broswer.
@kingofwale My reaction is one of cautious optimism. If Adobe actually goes for implementing hardware acceleration through this framework, then kudos to them for doing the "right" thing (they get no kudos for continuing to ignore the benefits of leveraging OS X-specific technologies like CoreVideo and CoreImaging in the Mac versions of their products to improve performance before this point).
I still hate Flash though. If Flash died tomorrow and were replaced by HTML5 video, the only things I'd seriously miss are Homestar Runner and Bitey Castle, neither of which are among the oft-promoted "awesome" or "important" uses of Flash on the web, despite clinging so closely to the product's original purpose. As a vector animation tool, Flash is (or at least, can be) awesome. As a way to build simple time-waste-y games, it's pretty decent. As a way to build truly great websites, accessible web applications, and video streaming... it kinda sucks balls. Sure they're glitzy, but they're bloated, perform terribly, are next to impossible to maintain (especially if you don't have access to the source Flash project), and destroy predictable user interaction with content.
@Kwame Nkrumah: BS. Never ONCE had a Flash problem on Windows. It certainly has brought Safari to a standstill, and I'm on a PC about 85-90% of the time.
You should just stop posting, and I'm sure that somewhere, in the cosmos, the real Kwame Nkrumah is weeping.
you dont even mention how this turns to hypocrisy. So mac users will all of a sudden- after YEARS of dismal adobe treatment- and get all snugly with them?
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oh Apple.... hypocrisy of the day.
I wonder how Apple fanboys will react to this news. Now Flash will go from "lazy, out-dated, useless" to... "the next greatest thing"
@kingofwale
No they will respond that it's still crappy.
@Kwame Nkrumah
3 posts in 5 minutes on the same article coming from someone who doesn't know jack about what they are talking about, in a blog article they shouldn't be posting in.
@kingofwale No, it will go from big lumbering slow unstable CPU-hogging security nightmare to just a big unstable security nightmare. Flash 10 isn't GPU-accelerated on *any* platform and Windows is the only platform it performs well on. This just means that the future of Flash on OS X has the potential to keep up with Flash on Windows. But Adobe has some catching up to do on the Mac and Linux versions.
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Damn Mr. Flash developer if flash works for you good for you, it doesn't work good for everyone. Flash is the biggest reason most browsers crash, why do you think browsers are now coming out with built in flash protection so that if a flash site crashes, it doesn't crash the broswer.
@kingofwale My reaction is one of cautious optimism. If Adobe actually goes for implementing hardware acceleration through this framework, then kudos to them for doing the "right" thing (they get no kudos for continuing to ignore the benefits of leveraging OS X-specific technologies like CoreVideo and CoreImaging in the Mac versions of their products to improve performance before this point).
I still hate Flash though. If Flash died tomorrow and were replaced by HTML5 video, the only things I'd seriously miss are Homestar Runner and Bitey Castle, neither of which are among the oft-promoted "awesome" or "important" uses of Flash on the web, despite clinging so closely to the product's original purpose. As a vector animation tool, Flash is (or at least, can be) awesome. As a way to build simple time-waste-y games, it's pretty decent. As a way to build truly great websites, accessible web applications, and video streaming... it kinda sucks balls. Sure they're glitzy, but they're bloated, perform terribly, are next to impossible to maintain (especially if you don't have access to the source Flash project), and destroy predictable user interaction with content.
@blahblahblah
It doesn't perform that well on windows either, sure it performs better than OSX but that doesn't it mean it performs well.
@Kwame Nkrumah: BS. Never ONCE had a Flash problem on Windows. It certainly has brought Safari to a standstill, and I'm on a PC about 85-90% of the time.
You should just stop posting, and I'm sure that somewhere, in the cosmos, the real Kwame Nkrumah is weeping.
@kingofwale
you dont even mention how this turns to hypocrisy. So mac users will all of a sudden- after YEARS of dismal adobe treatment- and get all snugly with them?
YOU MUST BE HIGH
@FrancisL4D
Why should we believe you?
@Kwame Nkrumah
Why should we believe you? Flash works perfectly fine for me on Windows.