Flash is going from strength to strength

We hear a lot of talk on the Web these days about Flash being killed, that it has been replaced by HTML 5 and so on.

This talk is premature, at best. If you click on the image and take a look at this recent Site of the Day you can see a whole myriad of things which are nowhere near being possible in HTML 5 and may never be possible using it. Take for example the way the user chooses a flag and then this is overlaid and a displacement filter is applied to the resulting image, seamlessly animating it.

Flash is very good at video, granted. But it is absurd to run away with the idea (as Steve Jobs erroneously did) that this is therefore all it does. ActionScript 3 is a massive, structured, powerful OOP language, Flash has evolved through 11 versions and is still evolving (now assisted by the collosal Google). HTML 5 is nowhere near it. Not even in the same ballpark. Come back in 5 years, maybe it’ll be a little closer – but still I wouldn’t bank on it: during that time, Flash will have been evolving further…

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