Comments on: 5 things Adobe needs to do to bring back the Flash love

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By: Gareth

Gareth — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:09:44 +0000

zuber said: By the time Adobe implement any of these, Flash will be long dead.

HTML 5 will take years to catch up with the features and user base of Flash.. by that time who knows what Flash will be like

By: zuber

zuber — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:33:50 +0000

By the time Adobe implement any of these, Flash will be long dead.

By: Lawrie

Lawrie — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 21:52:03 +0000

Some great points here – here’s hoping that Adobe will pick some of these up.

By: Gareth

Gareth — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:32:18 +0000

Agreed, it would kill what Flash is very good at; quick update cycles and guaranteed compatibility. We should be careful for what we wish for!

By: Andy Li

Andy Li — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:26:35 +0000

Ya, I agree it will be very likely a HTML5 publish option will appear in the Flash IDE. But still something currently HTML5 cannot do it while Flash can, like webcam access.
And I think it would be faster for the browser vendors to integrate the Flash Player into the browser instead of implementing Canvas tag and the others.

By: Gareth

Gareth — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:18:56 +0000

Good points but I think it more likely that eventually swf will be replaced by some sort of HTML5 exported format. Adobe make money from selling IDE’s not the Flash Plugin. There is no reason for them stick to the closed swf format. This also means they could deploy Flash anywhere.

By: Andy Li

Andy Li — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 17:07:40 +0000

But can’t a Flash Player be implemented using only open source technologies?
The parts I can think of that cannot are: video codec, PixelBender, protocols like RTMP… Seems that they can be replaced by other open source choices?
So maybe a open sourced version of Flash Player. If Adobe willing to works on it to let it be updated with the official one, gnash is a good choose.

By: Gareth

Gareth — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:48:42 +0000

Andy Li said: Let me add one: open source the Flash Player. So that it can really be taken as a part of the browser, part of the open web standard.

To be fair to Adobe, they have open sourced as much as they can. The various licensed technologies mean they could never open source the Player itself.