clientsfromhell:

Client: “Hmmm, could you make it bigger?”

Me: “That’s what she said.”

Client: “You’re out.”

An interesting conversation

dontwantflash:

An interesting conversation broke out on twitter between a co-worker @keithpitt and a user @JarZ.

@JarZ: But breaking compatibility with many, many websites by omitting flash is just silly and unnecessary, imo.

We’ll thats not the devices fault. As a web developer myself, whenever I have to use Flash I always have a fallback. Since recently everything had Flash some people got slack and didn’t set these fallbacks. It’s not the fault of the device but of the web developer, the lack of foresight and testing.

@JarZ: Because plenty of web pages are broken without flash. Even apples launch of the ipad suffered from that when showing NYT page

Suffered? I wouldn’t call a blue Lego suffering. Im pretty sure Steve knew that would happen, because they do rehearsing. Plenty are broken? Not really, plenty may have components or bits that are broken but please see the comment before regarding fallbacks.

@JarZ: but making up other excuses is bullshit. It’s not crashy/slow/etc on other mobile devices. Why is apple so different?

Sure other devices have Flash, although this being Flash Lite. Hey and you cant deny the stats. Apple reported that on Safari, most crashes were by plug-ins including Flash.

@JarZ: seriously, it’s a business decision, nothing more. Apple are welcome to make that decision on their own products.

Apple is a Business. Im sure it was a business decision. I detect a little emotion in this tweet. Probably trying to make Apple feel like this juggernaut exterminating technologies in its wake. Including Adobe in the development cycle of the devices a) would have cost more time b) meant a 3rd hand in the pie c) possible agreements and contracts which will fall through when we switch to HTML5.

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Flash test results and why it shouldn’t be mobile

dontwantflash:

I did a test to see how consuming Flash was on a computer.

Now it would be wrong of me to just blatantly say “You’re battery will die before the video ends” when using Flash on a mobile device. I know Flash would have a cut down version for mobile, I know that.

So we cant really compare these results outright. But lets not totally throw out the test. It’s an indication.

But there is one thing I have to point out, its obvious but overlooked. Flash is made by Adobe, the iPhone and iPad are made by Apple. Apple knows how to get the best efficiency out of their device, Adobe doesn’t.

It’s like getting a mechanic that specialises in Ferrari’s to go and do maintenance on a Porsche. Sure the job would be done but it wouldn’t be efficient.

Using Flash on mobile would chew through your battery. Watching video’s would be worse because of the fetching via cellular network and outputting of the video itself. It’s just not right. So at the end of a day you would go to ring your mates only to find your iDevice has powered down because its flat.

Devices cant be compact and fast when they need a bigger battery and have to run a plugin on every web page.