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Originally Posted by Tamara
Flash is not a standard. It's just convenient because so many schools churned out Flash designers instead of web designers with some real skill.
Adobe also has not made a viable version of Flash for the Apple mobile platform and from the lackluster demos of Flash on Android, I'm not holding my breath that they'll ever manage to get decent performance on a mobile device.
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Tamara, Flash is currently one of the most widely used technologies on the web, certainly more widely used than HTML5, or H.264, or Apple's QuickTime.
Yes, it is proprietary, but so is H.264, and QuickTime.
Most of the world is using Flash happily, just like most of the world is using Java. And most of the world doesn't even know what these are - people just enjoy the experience the technology provides.
In about a week, we'll see full Flash announced for Android, and in a few more months, for the rest of the major mobile platforms.
Which means, I believe, that in a year we'll see much fewer resource being spent on mobile versions of sites, as the numbers of smart phones and tablets having full browsing capabilities grows (you may have noticed, Android sales just surpassed iPhone's, and this is just the beginning).