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Recently I’ve been taking more and more of a dislike to Adobe’s Flash.  I keep wondering why in this day, the  age of “web 2.5″ we’re still using this nasty software.  There are many reasons to hate flash and perhaps a couple to like it a little but don’t get too excited.

Last month as rumours had suggested, Apple announced their new tablet called the Ipad.  Just as with their IPhone the Ipad does not and will not support Adobe Flash, you’ll find what Steve Jobs has to say about Adobe’s programmers with a Google Search.

Using a Netbook with little ram or perhaps a slow processor?  Good luck watching any YouTube HD or even HQ quality video.

Like to run anything even remotely cpu intensive whilst watching a Flash video? Good luck.

Fed up of those awesome browser crashes and lock ups?  Think we’re seeing a pattern here.

Although Adobe’s Flash was a great product that transformed the remains of the 90′s brightly coloured, flashing web sites into something that offered much more entertainment to users and flexibility to developers, Flash has seen its best days.

With HTML5 slowly rolling in and offering a solution for website video, games and applications I think we’ll finally have a chance to rid ourselves of this buggy software.  We’ll no longer have to throw our money at licenses, suffer no or little support on alternative platforms and finally be able to move closer to an open source and free Internet.

Adobe object to HTML5

Tags: adobe, flash, hd, html5