Tag Archives: Flash

The Internet is a vast landscape which is quickly changing. Change is the one constant you can count on when it comes to the World Wide Web. This is because there are always new forms of media coming online as well as new ways to present them. Flash from Adobe has been one of the giants in the industry for the longest time. Currently  Apple is trying to unseat the champion for their chance to bask in the glory (with the help of HTML5 of course). The problem is, Adobe is fighting back with an even better looking version of their Flash with the ability to do more and run faster. So, which one will be better?

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Many years have passed since you were the hottest and preferred of all the popular kids. Lets make something clear, you have never belong to me, you are proprietary. There will never be control of your actions, loyalty, understanding, and efforts that you put towards this relationship. Please don’t judge me, this isn’t easy… you have been important in my life, however, it is time to move on. I don’t see you as I used to, I see future along HTML and CSS. I know you are curious about me and JS. Well, J’s scripts have shown me the light… there’s life after you.

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In 1996, Macromedia released their product called Macromedia Flash which is a vector-based animation platform. With Flash, web designers were now able to create animations using a timeline and vector design tools as a video. Furthermore, Flash was and still is a great solution for web designers to provide visitors smooth view in such small file size. The only thing that web surfers need to enjoy the sites using flash is to install Macromedia Flash Player.

However, with the arrival of JavaScript in 1997, there has been a war between Flash and JavaScript because Flash was afraid JavaScript would one day replace them with all the animation it supports. Why? Because a ton of JavaScript frameworks are becoming increasingly popular as a result of their high scalability, performance and usability. Some include jQuery, MooTools, script.aculo.us, Prototype, among others but especially jQuery, as of late.

jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and AJAX interactions for rapid web development. Although you may have enough Javascript skills to build your own Javascript code, using jQuery instead of can simplify the process (think hundreds of lines vs. a few lines of jQuery). Furthermore, there are thousands of plugins for jQuery published and large community support for this project. jQuery deserves being the heaviest competitor with Flash.

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