I been thinking about this topic for a while now and how I feel about the situation of possible future of the internet with this plug-in and what would replace it.

I have been messing with Flash a bit here and there since version 4. I guess that is quite a long time and still not knowing much about it. I’ve always found it to be such a painful experience to work with, it’s like pulling teeth. When I have an idea I don’t want to deal with hours and hours of programming I just want it to do what I want it to do. But I’ve manage to learn the basics and for the most part I get Flash to do what I want it to do.

I’ve always have heard from people ‘Flash is the best thing ever man!’ or ‘I want to rape Flash so it’s broken forever’. And I have felt both of those arguments but with learning about the development of HTML5 I’m not sure how much Flash we’ll see in the future.

Everything Flash does right now is be a music player, video player, annoy the fuck out of you with ghey ads and stupid long loading over the top Flash web sites. What HTML5 does is remove the need of Flash to do the first two I’ve mention. That right there pretty much removes Flash from what you care about on the internet. I have a couple of places on my website where I use Flash and I’m looking forward to being able to remove it when all browsers support mp3 streaming with HTML5. (Has anyone else notice my music player cuts off songs before they are done?)

I don’t feel Flash is going to completely disappear from the internet, it’s going to not have such a strong market share. With Apple deciding to not support Flash for their iPhone/iPod/iPad products ultimately really hurts the future of Flash. As a web designer I know that I don’t like the idea of my web site not fully working the way I designed it if someone visits on one of those Apple products.

So taking my last point and an earlier point I made, (I’m not big into actionscript) the option of HTML5 with some Javascript doing what my Flash is doing is exciting to me. Only time will tell if everything I just said really becomes a reality, it relies on what the main browsers decide to support but it looks promising.