I warn you, this is a hate speech. Simple and plain.

Recently some old guys came to the frontline and said: “HTML and JavaScript combined is the future of software. Adobe was lazy to update Flash to the new web. Not the semantic web, but a more immersive experience, with more animations, video, touchscreens, respect for typography, 3D,  etc.”

Having some experience of Flash – nearly 10 years now – when I read that, I was confused at first. Should I start by doing a list of those people and bash them in the face one after another, or should I start by punching the first one, then find the address of the next one… Confused, really.

So to resume: the same retarded people we were fighting for years because they weren’t reactive enough to implement video, animations, fonts, on browsers are now coming to us with a revolution Flash did 10 years ago? I mean WHAT THE FUCK??

Let’s imagine someone who takes a boat, goes from Portugal to America, land there and say: “this land is the promise land, this is going to be awesome!”… It’s exactly that. So to you, the new Christopher Colombus : we’re already there. And we already built the things you just discovered.

So if you’re that kind of “nouveau cool” douche:

Well, GO FUCK YOURSELF. Having a NY nerd style, IKEA furniture and an iPad in your hands  won’t make you look cool. You’re a retard who’s spending his life fixing bugs we don’t have anymore for years. Period.

Click on the image to start and use “guest” as login and password when prompted.

The popup view is not the best solution to watch it, so click here if you want to experience it fully (or simply go fullscreen).

Got a few time yesterday to work on Papervision, so I took the occasion to build a small personal project, just to remember the good ol’ pv3d stuff. This time I tried the line3D object, mixed with a DAE model. LOADING MIGHT BE SLOW, because the plane itself is a Collada (.dae) file, load externally. If you don’t see anything, just wait a bit.

Use your mouse to move the camera. You’ve got 3 boxes that allows to customize the animation: the 1st one is the number of lines visible at the same time ; the 2nd one changes the “speed” of the plane. Lines are more curvy when low. The last one allows to change the distance between the plane and the camera.

Have fun!

I spent a few time on wonderfl.net recently. It’s a showcase website where you can post actionscript code and then see both the code and the result. And there’s some amazing stuff there. Like that one, based on motion detection (there is no way to stop the animations so if it’s too laggy, refresh that page then play the one you want to see) :

Or this one, using the Papervision 3D library:

And another one to finish, click then move the mouse to see the effect:

As all the world is not necessarily  a flash specialist^^, let’s start by a little resume of the situation.

Apple released the iPhone in 2007, and the first reaction of Adobe was of course to say “hey let’s run Flash on it”. Then months and months of discussions later, no arrangement could be found. Flash was and is still simply not compatible with the business model of the iPhone (some people may object on that, but it’s obviously not a technical reason anymore). After that, Adobe planned to build an exporter for Flash, in order to compile proper native iPhone apps. The statu quo lasted until a few days ago when Apple changed the iPhone’s SDK terms and conditions to forbid the use of cross-compilers. Which means: no Flash apps, even if they are automatically converted to Objective-C. Flash is not the only one concerned, Unity3D and Mono generated applications could be banned from the App Store too.

… So today was quite intense about Flash and the iphone (/ipad) all over the interweb, due to the release of the new Creative Suite 5 by Adobe. The peak was reached when an Adobe evangelist, Lee Brimelow, wrote “Go screw yourself Apple”. This is of course  not the official press release from Adobe, but still, that’s kind of hardcore for the software industry.

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