Comments on: Facebook’s HTML5 Mistake

By: PÃ¨ve Valson

PÃ¨ve Valson — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 12:57:37 +0000

In reply to Alex.G. "fast dying technology".. may I inform you that the game that records the highest income in the last years is farmville.. which is a Flash game...

By: Alex.G

Alex.G — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 08:38:44 +0000

In reply to Mark Fuqua. Why is it so ? On the contrary, I see it as wise to abandon a fast dying technology earlier than later. Don't be afraid to learn new things :-)

By: daklab

daklab — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:28:52 +0000

On a similar note, I believe people think that HTML5 will solve whatever issues (some) Flash implementations had in terms of performance – caused both by the player and devs alike (and as you mentioned management/leadership play a role too). A high profile case like this helps to shed some real light on HTML5’s infancy and lack of features when compared to native. And at the end of the day (not just in the mobile space) you have HTML5/CSS3/JS vs. all the native languages on mobile, Flash, Unity, etc – from a performance standpoint there are some things that simply can’t be done right now. From a language perspective (JS vs. AS3/C#/Java/Objective C) what is to be expected?

By: nigel

nigel — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 18:33:37 +0000

Speaking of YMaps, Paul Neave had an INCREDIBLE maps implementation in Flash around 5 months before that Y! doomed project launched. Still better than any other I’ve seen for responsiveness. I became aware of the YMaps work going on and started showing Neave’s work to those involved (I’d co-opted the codebase for an LCCS project at some point and optimized it even a little more), but they’d already written a ton of code and proceeded to suck wind. A real, preventable bummer.

Keep fighting the good fight here!

By: Mark Fuqua

Mark Fuqua — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:52:05 +0000

You referred to yourself as one of the ‘cynical, bitter ex-Flashers’. Say it ain’t so. No Apache Flex? No Flash? Its just HTML5…rah, rah, rah? Its indeed a sad day if the Jester has abandoned the good ship Flex.