Flash Blogs

25
Jan

The Rise of HTML 5 and Fall of Flash

by jeremy
The “Noughties” are well and truly over, so where does that leave Flash?

Adobe Flash grew from its introduction in 1996 to achieve almost complete market penetration at the end of the decade affectionately called “the Noughties”. Microsoft, designers, developers and even Disney embraced Flash as the best way to enhance websites, to add visual effects and create a more interactive user experience.

11
Mar

In 10 years time, Flash will be a forgotten technology

by Cameron

Well, with any sort of luck at least. The reason for Flash's timely demise is this: http://processingjs.org/

Processing, and the Javascript implementation of it above, is an open source programming language that allows developers to programmatically build animations, images and interactive elements. The Javascript implementation uses the new HTML5 canvas element to allow users to build virtually whatever graphical interface they can imagine.