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Originally Posted by nekokami
kacir did a good job covering this.
In my case, it's simple: Flash navigation is not usually ADA-compliant. (I work for a public university, where this is critical.) Also, see Jakob Nielsen (my favorite usability guru) on Flash usability:
Flash: 99% Bad
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Some interesting points, but as I was reading the excerpts, I kept thinking, wow! some of this is straight from the 1990s. Then i clicked on the link, and wow! again, it was from 2000.
While some of of observations are still valid, conventions have evolved significantly, as has Flash. Things will continue to change, and I expect that HTML5 will gain momentum and be widely accepted for many things in the coming year or three, but Flash will still be an important part of the web (including for touch devices).
Anyway, my whole point about Flash is not to defend Adobe, but to point out that Flash is very widely used, and any device which does not support it cannot be deemed a good web-browsing device, since a good portion of the web will not be accessible with it.
To me, defending Apple for not including Flash on the iPad is similar to defending the lack of Search, or Copy/Paste on the iPhone.
Given the recent stories about the chip in the iPad being
based on the older Cortex A8 design, Apple may have been worried about maintaining the feeling of "speed" on the iPad. Also, it is likely that there was no time to optimize Flash 10 for the iPad, given Apple's secrecy and reluctance to provide needed information.
But whatever the reason, bashing Flash is not going to change the fact that the iPad, in its currently rumored state, has some serious shortcomings.