{"id":355062,"date":"2010-02-23T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5478150"},"modified":"2010-02-23T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T18:00:00","slug":"farmville-is-a-perfect-demonstration-why-flash-is-stupid-in-mobiles-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/355062","title":{"rendered":"FarmVille Is a Perfect Demonstration Why Flash Is Stupid in Mobiles [Rant]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- videoId: r9whFavOb2U --><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\nnewVideoPlayer( {\"type\":\"video\",\"player\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/v\\\/r9whFavOb2U&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22&start=146\",\"customParams\":[],\"width\":500,\"height\":412,\"ratio\":0.824,\"flashData\":\"\",\"embedName\":null,\"objectId\":null,\"noEmbed\":false,\"source\":\"youtube\"} );\n<\/script><!-- \/videoId: r9whFavOb2U --> Adobe spends considerable money trying to make us believe that Flash is an indispensable part of the Web. But like a friend said on Twitter, this Nexus demo video shows why Flash is not worth it in any mobile device.<\/p>\n<p>He is right. It&#8217;s not only the <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5475005\/steve-jobs-flash-video-would-make-the-ipad-battery-life-15-hours\">battery consumption<\/a>, but the incessant zooming and scrolling, and the loading times. Why would I like to look at a Flash-based web site on the tiny screen of my Windows Phone 7 or my iPhone? Especially when I avoid them on my desktop computer in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s the question: Beyond <i>YouTube<\/i>&mdash;already available as dedicated apps in all cellphones&mdash;and other Flash-based movie playback&mdash;which will be soon replaced by HTML5 H.264 embedding&mdash;when was the last time you thought &#8220;OH, I NEED FLASH TO RUN THIS MUST-SEE SITE!&#8221;? Unless you want to play inane Flash-based games like Farmville and <i>enjoy<\/i> Flash-based ads in your browser, what does Flash really bring to the web <i>today<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>Do the test: Open your browser, go through your bookmarks, and make a list of actual content delivered by Flash only, the content you actually consume on a daily basis. If you are like most of the people I know, beyond YouTube and porn, you will come back mostly empty-handed.<\/p>\n<p>We are in the Web 2.0 era, people. Let&#8217;s move on to more interesting things. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmondpie.com\/farmville-on-nexus-one-flash-10.1-demo-on-android-2.1-9140472\/\">Redmond Pie<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/angeljimenez\">Twitter<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><i>Ed Note: This is just Jesus&#8217;s opinion, and most of us disagree. &ndash; JC<\/i><\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=62a3663ee77f4387fa38f6740a2d2f78&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=62a3663ee77f4387fa38f6740a2d2f78&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=ftUijjIgQw0:Bym3Si8rdvM:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=ftUijjIgQw0:Bym3Si8rdvM:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=ftUijjIgQw0:Bym3Si8rdvM:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=ftUijjIgQw0:Bym3Si8rdvM:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=ftUijjIgQw0:Bym3Si8rdvM:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=ftUijjIgQw0:Bym3Si8rdvM:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/ftUijjIgQw0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe spends considerable money trying to make us believe that Flash is an indispensable part of the Web. But like a friend said on Twitter, this Nexus demo video shows why Flash is not worth it in any mobile device. He is right. It&#8217;s not only the battery consumption, but the incessant zooming and scrolling, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1548,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-355062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}