Some Flash stuff I came across

I came across a link on Twitter for FlashMoto.com, Top Flash Trends for 2010. There’s nothing crazy here, Augmented Reality and Adobe AIR 2.0, stuff like that. But #6 caught me off guard a bit, The Mass Creation of Flash Content Management Systems. Whaa?? Flash CMS? In all the reading I’ve done, I can’t recall reading anything about Flash CMS becoming a big thing. I’ve never been to FlashMoto before, so I went to their home page and, surprise, surprise, they sell a Flash CMS. I’m not ripping on their business or anything, but that’s just kinda funny to me.

In a post that’s not selling you anything, Warm Forest has a nice post called 11 Myths About Flash That Won’t Die. Stuff like You can’t select and copy text on Flash sites and Flash isn’t supported on mobile devices are stuff I hear all the time. It’s a good post to show to your boss at work who never lets you build anything in Flash and ActionScript. Unless, like me, you have 6 months of being annoying to make them see it your way!

Finally, I don’t know why but some software developers just have a hate on for Flash. I’m not saying Flash is perfect and I’m not thrilled that it’s proprietary, but it let’s you do some sweet stuff and it looks and works the same no matter what browser it’s in. But, this guy, OSS Guy, has declared Flash dead and says all Flash developers should stop now and start working in HTML5/CSS3, which of course, means you’re now cutting out anyone that uses any version of IE and considering how well Microsoft has been doing at implementing CSS as it is now, I’m sure they’re going to be right on the bandwagon for CSS3. And it seems to me, a lot of software developers forget that one of the main uses of Flash is animation and if Flash is dead, then Teletoon is screwed when it comes to making their own shows! Plus, does anyone have any tutorials on how I can make HTML5 games? I’d really like to remake Frogger using it.